Quotes about Action

It is much easier to do something than to trust in God. That is why there are so few fellow workers with God and so many workers for Him. We would far rather work for God than believe in Him.

A biblical understanding of the Christian life is not 'let go and let God,' it's 'trust God and get going.'

I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.

When God gives a command or a vision of truth, it is never a question of what He will do, but what we will do.

Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature—subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today…. The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.

At the hour of death when we all come face to face with God we are going to be judged on love: how much we have loved, not how much we have done but how much love we have put in our action.

Feelings come to us, passively; love comes from us, actively, by our free choice.

Biblical love is not emotions or feelings, but attitudes and actions that seek the best interests of the other person, regardless of how we feel toward him.

There are only two ways: either we love-and love in action is service - or we put hatred into action and destroy.

Never procrastinate in showing love. Don't delay. Don't put it off. Do it now.

Love is primarily giving. It's an action that leads to a feeling, not a feeling first.

Those who have a true love of freedom will do everything in their power to keep the freedom that they have.