Quotes about Activity
We are not brought by faith into a realm of passivity, but rather, we are brought into the realm of diligent activity.
- Alistair Begg
Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!
- Joyce Meyer
... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one, in accordance with the best and most perfect kind.
- Aristotle
Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
We did everything possible to keep up the spirits of the men, but it was exceedingly difficult because there was nothing for them to do.
- Theodore Roosevelt
But a man whose business is sedentary should get some kind of exercise if he wishes to keep himself in as good physical trim as his brethren who do manual labor.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying, or meditating, or endeavoring something for the public good.
- Thomas a Kempis
To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Invisible insects of diabolical activity swarm in this place. I am tickled and twitched all over. Mentally, I have now committed a burglary under the meanest circumstances, and the myrmidons of justice are at my heels.
- Charles Dickens
Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle
- Charles Spurgeon
Real spiritual growth comes only through discipline and perseverance. In other words, it comes through sticking with it. One of the traps for all of us, however, is substituting activity for genuine fellowship with God.
- Greg Laurie
Action gives power. Entire harmony pervades the universe of God. All the heavenly beings are in constant activity; and the Lord Jesus, in His life work, has given an example for every one.
- Ellen White