Quotes About Action

The pastoral itch to be where "the action is" should be resisted.

What we require is obedience—the strength to stand and the willingness to leap, and the sense to know when to do which. Which is exactly what we get when an accurate memory of God's ways is combined with a lively hope in his promises.

God acts positively toward his people. God is not indifferent. He is not rejecting. He is not ambivalent or dilatory. He does not act arbitrarily, in fits and starts. He is not stingy, providing only for bare survival.

Self-justification is a verbal defense for restoring the appearance of righteousness without doing anything about the substance.

Preaching reveals God in action here and now -- for ME.

I keep praying that this faith we hold in common keeps showing up in the good things we do, and that people recognize Christ in all of it.

So much of the time it is not complacency that threatens but its opposite, impetuosity. We see something that is wrong, whether in the world or in the church, and we fly into action, righting the wrong, confronting sin and wickedness, battling the enemy, and then we go out vigorously recruiting "Christian soldiers".

re: Matthew 7:21 - "Knowing the correct password - saying 'Master, Master', for instance - isn't going to get you anywhere with Me. What's required is serious obedience doing what my Father wills.") "This is a passage for all those who understand, as Jesus has said, that belief in Him is proved in ordinary life rather than in extraordinary practices, and that the good Shepherd whose simple garb matches his mission, stands at the center of the true Kingdom.

This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.

What caused them to not choose us? What caused them to choose the other guys? Did we do everything we could? Honestly? Was there any lack of commitment? If we had to do it again, would we have done anything differently? What?

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Cowards do not count in battle they are there, but not in it.

Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.

Now, tell me everything, please. Of course if he has harmed you I shall kill him, whoever he is," he added matter-of-factly. "But otherwise, perhaps something can be done.

Kidnapping children is not a good idea. All the same, sometimes it has to be done.

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Always do what you're afraid to do"-Robert F. Kennedy

The organism's environment is the sense it makes of the world. This environment is a place of significance and valence, as a result of the global action of the organism.

Put your currency where your oral cavity is.

I risked a quick glance over my shoulder as we raced through the door and saw some men in uniforms converging on the spot we had been fighting. The three weres were lying on the floor, all obviously injured. Three Wolf Moon's leg was bent at a wrong angle and Tribal Tattoos was holding his arm and howling. Brass Knuckles was still scrabbling at his bleeding neck, sobbing like a little girl that he had been bitten.

When Lakshya' released, people wanted to join the army. It's been quite some gap since then, but Uri' will bring out those emotions in you.

Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.

When 'I' released, I gave a couple of interviews in which I expressed my interest to play an action heroine.

In the mid '70s when 'Sholay' released, people had never seen action like that - horses, jeeps, dacoits, fights on a bridge - it was all very new, and the movie set a benchmark.