Quotes about Action

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Preach the Gospel at all times. When necessary, use words.

There is release from anguish in action.

In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Do something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

He who would be free must strike the first blow.

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

When "doing" becomes divorced from "being", pious thoughts become a poor substitute for washing dirty feet.

For the Christian one dislocating, self-impoverishing hour spent with a child living in a broken-down dump is worth more than all the burial mounds of rhetoric, all the enfeebled good intentions, all the mumbling and fumbling and tardiness of those Christians who are so busy cultivating their own holiness that they cannot hear the anguished cry of the child in the slum.

We are all subject to forgetfulness of God's faithfulness in the past, laziness to act on the divine promise, and postponing until tomorrow what Jesus is asking of us today: childlike abandonment in trust.