Quotes About Action

Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

Prayer and action...can never be seen as contradictory or mutually exclusive. Prayer without action grows into powerless pietism, and action without prayer degenerates into questionable manipulation.

One can believe intellectually in the efficacy of prayer and never do any praying.

Change only takes place through action, not through meditation and prayer.

It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.

The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.

See that you do not use the trick of prayer to cover up what you know you ought to do.

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Peace does not come through prayer, we human beings must create peace.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

All is not done when we have spoken to God by prayer; our petitions are to be pursued with real endeavours.

Prayer does not influence God. Prayer surely does influence God. It does not influence His purpose. It does influence His action.

The more we can give in our silent prayer, the more we can give in our active life.

Prayer alone will not make a happy life. A happy life must be built. You must act.

I would like to emphasize again that right prayer leads to right action, that faith without works is dead. An excellent way to put thoughts into action is to write a letter for peace.

Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.

Along with my spiritual practices of meditation, affirmative prayer, and visioning, what catalyzes my sense of aliveness is putting those practices into action by being of service to others.

We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided.

Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is.

Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.

Put legs to your prayers

Prayer is dedicating our thought, feeling and action to the expression of goodness. It is to become like a window through which the light of God shines.

Failure to do the good that is within your power is hard to forgive. But mercy and prayer reclaim the negligent.