Quotes About Action

On seeing this, Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, got up from the assembly, took a spear in his hand,

“Attack the Midianites and strike them dead.

But Moses asked the Gadites and Reubenites, “Shall your brothers go to war while you sit here?

But if anyone pushes a person suddenly, without hostility, or throws an object at him unintentionally,

And you answered me and said, “What you propose to do is good.”

And at that time I commanded you all the things you were to do.

If you see your brotherís donkey or ox fallen on the road, you must not ignore it; you must help him lift it up.

It is not in heaven, that you should need to ask, ëWho will ascend into heaven to get it for us and proclaim it, that we may obey it?í

Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people:

At dusk, when the gate was about to close, the men went out, and I do not know which way they went. Pursue them quickly, and you may catch them!”

you are to rise from the ambush and seize the city, for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.

and as soon as he did so, the men in ambush rose quickly from their position. They rushed forward, entered the city, captured it, and immediately set it on fire.

But you, do not stop there. Pursue your enemies and attack them from behind. Do not let them reach their cities, for the LORD your God has delivered them into your hand.”

One day Acsah came to Othniel and urged him to ask her father for a field. When she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, “What do you desire?”

Joshua answered them, “If you have so many people that the hill country of Ephraim is too small for you, go to the forest and clear for yourself an area in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim.”

So Joshua said to the Israelites, “How long will you put off entering and possessing the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you?

And when they heard this, the whole congregation of Israel assembled at Shiloh to go to war against them.

That is why we said, ëLet us take action and build an altar for ourselves, but not for burnt offerings or sacrifices.

One day Acsah came to Othniel and urged him to ask her father for a field. When she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, “What do you desire?”

Then Ehud approached him while he was sitting alone in the coolness of his upper room. “I have a word from God for you,” Ehud said, and the king rose from his seat.

Then Ehud went out through the porch, closing and locking the doors of the upper room behind him.

Barak said to her, “If you will go with me, I will go; but if you will not go with me, I will not go.”

“When the princes take the lead in Israel, when the people volunteer, bless the LORD.

ëAwake, awake, O Deborah! Awake, awake, sing a song! Arise, O Barak, and take hold of your captives, O son of Abinoam!í