Quotes about Action
People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.
- Dorothy Day
Maybe I was praying for him then, in my own way. Does God have a set way of prayer, a way that He expects each of us to follow? I doubt it. I believe some people-- lots of people-- pray through the witness of their lives, through the work they do, the friendships they have, the love they offer people and receive from people. Since when are words the only acceptable form of prayer?
- Dorothy Day
Love in action is harsh and dreadful when compared to love in dreams.
- Dorothy Day
We must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time; we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment. But we can beg for an increase of love in our hearts that will vitalize and transform all our individual actions, and know that God will take them and multiply them, as Jesus multiplied the loaves and fishes.
- Dorothy Day
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetuate it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, things arenÃ
- Dr. Seuss
Our actions and attitudes in the chronos times of preparing, sowing, believing and persevering are what determine whether God can shift us into the kairos times of fresh and strategic opportunities.
- Dutch Sheets
A good example is far better than a good precept.
- DL Moody
If you know that this life is all that you have, wouldn't you make the most of it?
- Ayn Rand
Preach the Gospel with your life.
- Matt Chandler
Life responds to deserve and not to need. It doesn't say,"If you need,you will reap." It says,"If you plant you will reap."The guys says,"I really need to reap."Then you really need to plant.
- Jim Rohn
God's Word does not merely impart information; it actually creates life. It's not only descriptive; it's effective too, God speaking is God acting.
- Michael Horton