Quotes about Activity

God is always at work around you.

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.

It is clear that there is some difference between ends: some ends are energeia [energy], while others are products which are additional to the energeia.

Worship is first an identity before it becomes an activity.

When asked what he thought of sports, Oscar Wilde replied, I approve of any activity that requires the wearing of special clothing.

He felt that life was changeful, fluid, active, and that to allow it to be stereotyped into any form was death. He saw that people should not be too serious over material, common interests: that to be unpractical was to be a great thing: that one should not bother too much over affairs. The birds didn't, why should man?

The fact that early humans did decorate corpses, lay out the bodies in particular postures or bury people with flowers, aligned horns or tools would support the notion that some ritualization of death is a very ancient human activity.

Our destiny is to join a tremendously creative team effort, under unimaginably splendid leadership, on an inconceivably vast plane of activity, with ever more comprehensive cycles of productivity and enjoyment.

So prayer is a total activity, incorporating many elements essential to a personal relationship between two persons—persons different from and related to one another as the Father is to his children on earth. But still the heart of prayer is the request.

"There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens"

That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.

Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself.