Then Martin says, as if he is writing a commentary on Matthew 6:19—24: "The acid test is not what we say, but what we do; not what we promise in words, but what we actually give in money.

There is nothing complex about this most simple of moral maxims; its difficulty is in the doing, not in the knowing.

Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.

The era of empty talk is over. Now is the time for action.

Hirsch and Ford believe that we've 'demonstrated' enough. It's now time for 'doing.' This book shows how to be missional 'Right Here, Right Now.'

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain't got no business doing wrong when he ain't ignorant and knows better.

A hypocritical businessman, whose fortune had been the misfortune of many others, told Mark Twain piously, "Before I die I intend to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. I want to climb to the top of Mount Sinai and read the Ten Commandments aloud." "I have a better idea," suggested Twain. "Why don't you stay right at home in Boston and keep them?

They require that the author shall make the reader feel a deep interest in the personages of his tale and in their fate; and that he shall make the reader love the good people in the tale and hate the bad ones. But the reader of the Deerslayer tale dislikes the good people in it, is indifferent to the others, and wishes they would all get drowned together.

One of these days I'm going to put my body where my mind is.

It is all very well to say that a man is clever, but the reader wants to see examples of it...

The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. One says: "Merry Christmas"—not "Weep and Repent." And the good will is expressed in a material, earthly form—by giving presents to one's friends, or by sending them cards in token of remembrance.

Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours, Yours are the eyes through which to look out Christ's compassion to the world Yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good; Yours are the hands with which he is to bless men now.