Quotes About Action

I feel that very frequently prayer is made a refuge to dodge the action of faith.

Prayer does not change the purpose of God. But prayer does change the action of God.

When people are truly dedicated to the Divine, there is no difference between action and prayer.

You cannot pray for an A on a test and study for a B. You cannot pray for a celestial marriage and live a telestial life. You cannot pray for something and act less.

God is the best helper, but He loves to be helped. Be earnest in prayer, but do not neglect human means. You must help yourself in all manner of ways, and then the Lord will be with you.

Why pray if we cannot change God? ...is that why we pray? To change omniscient Love? Isn't it rather to learn what it is and to fulfill it? Not to change it by our acts, but to change our acts by it.

Build and they will come' is not a strategy, it's a prayer.

Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

A ton of prayer will never produce what an ounce of obedience will.

Prayer causes things to happen that wouldn't happen if you didn't pray.

I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see him.

The stillness of prayer is the most essential condition for fruitful action. Before all else, the disciple kneels down.

Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts.

One should never initiate anything that he cannot saturate with prayer.

Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway.

I have seen many men work without praying, though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen a man pray without working.

Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.

Each activity of daily life in which we stretch ourselves on behalf of others is a prayer in action.

Prayer is no substitute for work; equally true is it that work is no substitute for prayer.

Believing prayer will lead to whole-hearted action.

If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.

A prayer makes sense only if it is lived.

When our wagon gets stuck in the mud, God is much more likely to assist the man who gets out to push than the man who merely raises his voice in prayer—no matter how eloquent the oration.

Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.