Quotes about Action

At that moment, we decided to stop complaining about the church we saw, and we set our hearts on becoming the church we dreamed of.

In college, one of my professors said, "Don't let the world steal your soul. Being a Christian is about choosing Jesus and deciding to do something incredibly daring with your life.

Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.

For even if the whole world believed in resurrection, little would change until we began to practice it. We can believe in CPR, but people will remain dead until someone breathes new life into them. And we can tell the world that there is life after death, but the world really seems to be wondering if there is life before death.

I'm just not convinced that Jesus is going to say, "When I was hungry, you gave a check to the United Way and they fed me.

I now think it takes more faith to name our need than to keep believing that something will happen and not doing anything about it. It takes faith, and great courage, to get help, to take the first painful step toward the dream that is in our hearts...I know now that you can look at bricks and cement for years, believing in the vision of a home, but until you get down on your hands and knees and start to build, it will remain a dream.

What you put out comes back all the time, no matter what.

You realize that we over-exaggerate yesterday, we over-estimate tomorrow and we underestimate today. We think, "Well, I'm going to kill time," "I'll get back to this tomorrow."

True worth is doing each day some little good not dreaming of great things to do by and by.

None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.

Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.

Positive thinking is how you think about a problem. Enthusiasm is how you feel about a problem. The two together determine what you do about a problem.