Quotes about Action
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.
- CS Lewis
The stillness of prayer is the most essential condition for fruitful action. Before all else, the disciple kneels down.
- Gianna Beretta Molla
Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway.
- Joyce Meyer
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.
- Hudson Taylor
Prayer is no substitute for work; equally true is it that work is no substitute for prayer.
- Leonard Ravenhill
Believing prayer will lead to whole-hearted action.
- Hudson Taylor
Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.
- Mother Teresa
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.
- Henri Nouwen
One can believe intellectually in the efficacy of prayer and never do any praying.
- Catherine Marshall
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.
- Dallas Willard
See that you do not use the trick of prayer to cover up what you know you ought to do.
- Oswald Chambers
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.
- George Eliot