Quotes about Action
The Bible is there to enable God's people to be equipped to do God's work in God's world, not to give them an excuse to sit back smugly, knowing they possess all God's truth.
- NT Wright
Pray as if all depended on God and work as if all depended upon you.
- Brigham Young
The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.
- Henry Ford
We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect.
- Barack Obama
There is much good work to be done by every one of us and we must begin to do it.
- Wendell Berry
Get on your knees and pray, then get on your feet and work.
- Gordon Hinckley
A man has only so much knowledge as he puts to work.
- St. Francis Of Assisi
The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.
- Steven Pressfield
Here on earth, God's work must surely be our own.
- John F. Kennedy
As God's children, we are not to be observers; we're to participate actively in the Lord's work. Spectators sit and watch, but we are called to use our spiritual gifts and serve continually.
- Charles Stanley
Whatever there is of God and goodness in the universe, it must work itself out and express itself through us. We cannot stand aside and let God do it.
- Albert Einstein
The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.
- Shane Claiborne