Quotes about Action

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.

His comedy pleases by the thoughts and the language, and his tragedy for the greater part by incident and action. His tragedy seems to be skill, his comedy to be instinct.

You must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; --from fear of its being abused.

God never accepts a good inclination instead of a good action, where that action may be done; nay, so much the contrary, that, if a good inclination be not seconded by a good action, the want of that action is made so much the more criminal and inexcusable.South'sSermons.3. Agency

This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.

Christ has no body now but yours, No hands, no feet on earth but yours, Yours are the eyes with which He looks Compassion on this world, Yours are the feet with which He walks to do good, Yours are the hands, with which He blesses all the world.

The Bible is not merely informative, the Holy Father went on to say, but "performative." It leads us to an action: the Eucharist, which Jesus meant to be transformative.

Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life.

I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.

And any declaration of faith that does not result in a changed life and good works is a false declaration. It is faith alone that justifies. But faith that justifies can never be alone.

Don't think you can relax yourself to happiness. Happiness comes as a result of doing.