Quotes about Action
While parents are responsible for the stamp of character, as well as for the education and training, of their sons and daughters, it is still true that our position and usefulness in the world depend, to a great degree, upon our own course of action.
- Ellen White
Followers of Christ will not exhibit characteristics that are cheap and selfish, but in word, spirit, and action they will reveal the tenderness of Christ.
- Ellen White
I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them.
- Elton John
We don't ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.
- Barack Obama
Do you have a body? Don't sit on the porch! Go out and walk in the rain! If you are in love, then why are you asleep? Wake up, wake up! You have slept millions and millions of years. Why not wake up this morning?
- Barbara Brown Taylor
Salvation happens every time someone with a key uses it to open a door he could lock instead.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
In a world where faith is often construed as a way of thinking, bodily practices remind the willing that faith is a way of life.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails. Wise people do not have to be certain what they believe before they act. They are free to act, trusting that the practice itself will teach them what they need to know.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
In a single sentence, Gandhi has given me a new way to live with the verse at the end of Matthew's Gospel, which Christians sometimes call the Great Commission. The way to make a disciple is to be one. If your life does not speak, your footnotes will have limited impact. Become worthy of the message, and join the spinning brigade. Why isn't that the Great Commission?
- Barbara Brown Taylor
Handing out free food and clothes was a charitable act. Approaching the powers was a political act.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
- Barbara Kingsolver