Quotes about Action

We don't wait for things to happen to us; we happen to things.

What should you do if you know what you should do but you just don't want to do it?

Sometimes when people get saved and filled with the Holy Spirit, they think everything is going to come to them by means of a miracle. Getting saved simply means giving ourselves up to God by taking ourselves out of our own keeping and entrusting ourselves into His keeping. God does miracles, but He also expects us to do our part. Instead

Real love has little to do with gooey emotions and goose bumps; it has everything to do with the choices we make about the way we treat people. Real love is not theory or talk; it is action. It is a decision concerning the way we behave in our relationships with other people. Real love meets needs even when sacrifice is required in order to do so.

For example, if you need a job, you can go look for one. That is something that you can do, and if you do it, then God will help you get the right job. You cannot make a company hire you, but God can change the heart of the king (those in charge) even as He changes the course of the water flowing in rivers (Proverbs 21:1).

The contemporary American church is so largely enculturated to the American ethos of consumerism that it has little power to believe or to act.

Faith is both the conviction that justice can be accomplished and the refusal to accept injustice.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Baptism is faith in action.

I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them.

Discipleship in the church today has more to do with consuming and absorbing cognitive content than it has anything to do with missional action.

is true. We change not by mustering up willpower but by changing the way we think, which will also involve changing our actions and our social environment. We change indirectly. We do what we can.