Quotes About Action

I do not get to know God and then do His will. I get to know Him by doing His will.

If we are going to save this country, if we are going to reestablish that belief in God, it's up to us. If we don't do it, who will?

We must act on the direction we receive. We must look up and step up. And as we do, I know we will cheer up, for God wants us to be happy.

We should always pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should always act with as much energy as those who expect everything from themselves.

My every action is to liberate God from his sorrow.

Is there a God? No. God is a verb, not a noun.

God is inexhaustibly attainable in the totality of our action.

In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty.

No doubt, God alone has become all these objects, animate and inanimate, but in the relative world all beings act and suffer according to their past Karma and innate tendencies.

We can still turn the world upside down. We can be living torches for Christ today.

The god of war hates those who hesitate.

TRUST in GOD and then GO and DO.

I'm just in that stage where I pray for God to show me how I can be effective in the world and things come up and I go. But I have yet to really dig in.

I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring.

The cautious faith that never saws off a limb on which it is sitting, never learns that unattached limbs may find strange unaccountable ways of not falling.

The Rudderless World is not shaped by vague metaphysical Forces. It is not God who kills the Children. Not Fate that butchers them or Destiny that feeds them to the Dogs. ... It´s us. Only us.

An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.

Would to God that we might spend a single day really well!

The march to our duty here, not merely to ourselves, but to our surroundings, must proceed. God wills it.

It is when people do not allow God to show up through them ... that the world collapses in on itself.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

Preach in the name of God. The learned will smile; ask the learned what they have done for their country. The priests will excommunicate you . . .

God discovers the martyr and confessor without the trial of flames and tortures, and will hereafter entitle many to the reward of actions which they had never the opportunity of performing.

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we're doing.