Quotes about Action

One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.

They have forgotten these immortal words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the Lutheran pastor whose passion for truth drove him to confront Adolf Hitler and Germany:   Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.1.

Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.

Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lies before us today? How many momentous events in Scripture depended on one person's seemingly small act of obedience! Rest assured: Do what God tells you to do now, and, depend upon it, you will be shown what to do next.

Choices will continually be necessary and -- let us not forget -- possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to fall into the notion that when feelings are extremely strong we can do nothing but act on them.

This is the best cure for melancholy: to set about doing something which will require muscular exertion and which will benefit others.

Revolution is not a one time event.

Good things aren't supposed to just fall into your lap. God is very generous, but He expects you to do your part first.

I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.

People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it- walk.

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.