Quotes about Action

Potential is God's gift to us, and what we do with it is our gift to God.

God is honored when we act as if He is going to answer our prayers! And acting as if means acting on our prayers. After hitting our knees, we need to take a small step of faith. And those small steps of faith often turn into giant leaps.

Sometimes you've got to do the natural before God will do the supernatural.

When we fail to take action, we forfeit the future. And just as inaction is an action, indecision is a decision. As Edmund Burke famously said, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

But if you make a move, you'll see God move. And He can move heaven and earth.

After we pray like it depends on God, we need to work like it depends on us. But if we don't pray first, our work won't work.

The Bible comes alive only when we actively obey it.

Potential is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

Holiness is not a bid to be noticed or loved or accepted by God. Holiness, rather, is acting out and acting upon the truth that God has noticed, loved and accepted us long before we did anything to warrant that.

Lest anyone think that any action, however required or useful, could be a source of pride, Sibbes preached that "it is a sottish conceit to think that we can fit ourselves for grace, as if a child in the womb could forward its natural birth. If God hath made us men, let us not make ourselves gods."107

The future depends on what you do today.

If you want to change the future, then you are going to have to trouble the present.