Quotes about Activity

A dancer differeth from a madman only in length of time; one is mad so long as he liveth, the other while he danceth.

We say no to sin because we are holy in Christ. We endure the criticism of those who hate us because God loves us in Christ. We endure ostracism from others because God welcomes us in Christ. We are not what we do. We do what we are. Our identity determines our activity. This was true for Jesus, and it's true for those who are in Christ. Our identity as new creations in Christ is the key to our victory like Christ.

Quid quid movetur ab alio movetur(nothing moves without having been moved).

Now to exert oneself and work for the sake of amusement seems silly and utterly childish. But to amuse oneself in order that one may exert oneself, as Anacharsis puts it, seems right; for amusement is a sort of relaxation, and we need relaxation because we cannot work continuously. Relaxation, then, is not an end; for it is taken for the sake of activity.

Happiness seems to depend on leisure, because we work to have leisure, and wage war to live in peace.

Where there are things to be done the end is not to survey and recognize the various things, but rather to do them.

Anything is better than stagnation.

A change of work is the best rest.

Assurance of hope is more than life, it is health, strength, power, vigor, activity, energy, manliness, beauty.

All of history is moving toward one great goal, the white-hot worship of God and His Son among all the peoples of the earth. Missions is not that goal. It is the means. And for that reason it is the second greatest human activity in the world.

To the dwellers in Eden was committed the care of the garden, "to dress it and to keep it." Their occupation was not wearisome, but pleasant and invigorating. God appointed labor as a blessing to man, to occupy his mind, to strengthen his body, and to develop his faculties. In mental and physical activity Adam found one of the highest pleasures of his holy existence.

The Creator has prepared no place for the stagnating practice of indolence.