Quotes about Action

we can't use someone else's irresponsibility in the past as an excuse for our irresponsibility in the present. If

This is not a time for secret-agent Christians or covert Jesus operatives. We need kingdom men who will step up and change the world.

Faith is directly tied to an action done in response to a revealed truth.

How am I going to live today to create the tomorrow I've committed to?

Christian doctrine grows disciples by teaching them to perceive, name, and act in ways that demonstrate the reality of the gospel, speaking and showing what is "in Christ.

Doctrine is less theoretical than it is theatrical, a matter of doing—speaking and showing—what we have heard and understood.

If actions speak louder than words, it is because they lend the weight of behavior (real assent) to belief (nominal assent).

does belief that fails to issue in behavior count as genuine witness (and understanding) or not?

We can't grow our faith on the deck of a ship. We can watch other water walkers, hear their stories and read their books, but ultimately, the only way we are going to grow our water-walking faith is to get out of the dang boat!

Conviction reminds us of our God-given identity and calls us to act like a son or daughter of God, not a sinner.

Theology isn't really theology for us until we live it.

God's vision for us doesn't just reassure us that we matter and that our lives do count for something. God's vision compels us to look beyond ourselves, to ponder a picture of how things were meant to be that leaves us aching for his will to be done on earth as it is in heaven, and to look for ways to participate in moving the world toward that goal. One of the biggest issues confronting us today is the battle cry of Amy Carmichael and the burning challenge of Half the Sky.