Quotes About Action

The fool folds his hands and consumes his own flesh.

If the snake bites before it is charmed, there is no profit for the charmer.

Cast your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will find it again.

He who watches the wind will fail to sow, and he who observes the clouds will fail to reap.

Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil!

They prepare a table, they lay out a carpet, they eat, they drink! Rise up, O princes, oil the shields!

For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Perazim. He will rouse Himself as in the Valley of Gibeon, to do His work, His strange work, and to perform His task, His disturbing task.

But I know your sitting down, your going out and coming in, and your raging against Me.

Who among you will pay attention to this? Who will listen and obey hereafter?

Even from eternity I am He, and none can deliver out of My hand. When I act, who can reverse it?”

I foretold the former things long ago; they came out of My mouth and I proclaimed them. Suddenly I acted, and they came to pass.

For My own sake, My very own sake, I will act; for how can I let Myself be defamed? I will not yield My glory to another.

From ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides You, who acts on behalf of those who wait for Him.

For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another,

So I went and hid it at Perath, as the LORD had commanded me.

Many days later the LORD said to me, “Arise, go to Perath, and get the loincloth that I commanded you to hide there.”

Again and again I have sent you all My servants the prophets, proclaiming: ëTurn now, each of you, from your wicked ways, and correct your actions. Do not go after other gods to serve them. Live in the land that I have given to you and your fathers.í But you have not inclined your ear or listened to Me.

Ebed-melech went out from the kingís palace and said to the king,

Then all the commanders of the forces, along with Johanan son of Kareah, Jezaniah son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least to the greatest, approached

Then they said to Jeremiah, “May the LORD be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not act upon every word that the LORD your God sends you to tell us.

Cursed is the one who is remiss in doing the work of the LORD, and cursed is he who withholds his sword from bloodshed.

And there the hand of the LORD was upon me, and He said to me, “Get up, go out to the plain, and there I will speak with you.”

You must turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared, and prophesy against it.

Then the man clothed in linen with the writing kit at his side reported back, “I have done as You commanded.”