Quotes about Action

God, how do I do that? What would You have me to do? What is the message You would have me act out?

A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith.

Worry never climbed a hill, worry never paid a bill, Worry never dried a tear, worry never calmed a fear, Worry never darned a heel, worry never cooked a meal, It never led a horse to water, nor ever did a thing it "oughter."

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought.

Mars hates those who delay; but if you fear the weight of arms, now then go forth unarmed

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

If you want to be prominent, get out and try for something.

Begin to see that when we say God will "justify" rather than merely "acquit," the action has a reconstituting force — hence the insufficiency of the courtroom metaphor "to acquit." God's righteousness is the same thing as his justice, and his justice is powerfully at work justifying, which does not mean excusing, passing over, or even "forgiving and forgetting," but actively making right that which is wrong.

Through fidelity, we situate ourselves and maintain ourselves in the hands of God so exactly as to become one with them in their action.

I'm not a complainer. I'm a doer. So if I see something is wrong, then I feel like I have to get in there and try to fix it.