Quotes about Action

When asked what he would do if he knew the world would end tomorrow, Martin Luther said, "I would plant a tree."

Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.

Having the courage to take the steps we always wanted to take is the only way of showing that we trust in God.

We must trust as if it all depended on God and work as if it all depended on us

Trust God, and do the next thing.

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.