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Quotes About Action

Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence; faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.
~ Sherwood Eddy
Faith without works is as dead as a doornail.
~ Millard Fuller
If we try to obey without faith, we get nowhere. If we try to have faith without obedience, it ends in nothing.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Most people think that faith means believing something; oftener it means trying something, giving it a chance to prove itself
~ Henry Ford
Faith doesn't mean you never doubt. It only means you never act upon your doubts.
~ Orson Scott Card, Sarah
Faith is not complacent; faith is action. You don't have faith and wait. When you have faith, you move.
~ Betty Eadie
We live by faith, and faith lives by exercise.
~ William Gurnall
Faith isn't figuring out what we're able to do, it's deciding what we're going to do - even when we think we can't.
~ Bob Goff
What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it.
~ Hubert H. Humphrey
We may infer from any defeat of ours that it is due either to lack of faith or failure to obey. No other reason can suffice.
~ Watchman Nee
Praying without faith is like trying to cut with a blunt knife - much labor expended to little purpose.
~ James O. Fraser
Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.
~ Francis Beaumont
It is not the part of faith to question, but to obey.
~ A. B. Simpson
Faith is only real when there is obedience, never without it, and faith only becomes faith in the act of obedience.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The answer to your prayer is not according to your faith while you are talking, but according to your faith while you are working.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Forget if you are rich or poor. All you need is faith in yourself. If you have the passion to work then just get up and set forth and you will find the way!
~ Narendra Modi
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is still theoretically possible ... faith is the readiness to act in a cause the prosperous issue of which is not certified to us in advance.
~ William James
To me, Faith is not just a noun but also a verb
~ Jimmy Carter
An authentic faith always implies a deep desire to change the world.
~ Pope Francis
We call on all members of America's religious communities, as a testament of our common faith, to join Faithful Security, and to take action immediately to break faith with nuclear weapons.
~ William Sloane Coffin
Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Paul spoke about the root of faith (Eph 2:8). James spoke about the fruit of faith (Jm 2:17-18).
~ Adrian Rogers
Belief, in one of its accepted senses, may consist in a merely intellectual assent, while faith implies such confidence and conviction as will impel to action.
~ James E. Talmage