Quotes about Activity

It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.

My daughter is a horseback rider, so I try to watch her ride; we take holidays together.

A faith that does not result in activity of any kind is a dead faith; it is empty, worthless, insincere.

The activity will prove to be "peculiar" by leading the active person into Christ's own passion. This activity itself is perpetual suffering and enduring. In it, Christ is suffered by his disciple. If this is not the case, it is not the activity Jesus intended. In this way, the "extraordinary" is the fulfilling of the law, the keeping of the commandments.

God loves his work and therefore wills to preserve it. Creation and preservation are two aspects of the one activity of God.

God alone can deliver us from a life of meaningless activities.

That which is used - develops. That which is not used wastes away.

God is not a static thing...but a dynamic, pulsating activity, a life, almost a kind of drama. Almost, if you will not think me irreverent, a kind of dance.

Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored.

But in the areas that matter most, a burst of energy and activity cannot reverse the consequences that accompany a season of neglect.

The Old Testament does not tell us everything God was doing everywhere in the world. It's not a biography of God's early years. The Jewish Scriptures describe God's activity in connection to one particular people group.

The tendency in business, or in church work for that matter, is to mistake activity for progress. We think that just because people are busy and doing a lot of stuff that we are being successful. The fact of the matter is, if all that activity isn't taking you where you want to go, then it's just wasted time.