George MacDonald Quotes

It is so important to balance orthodoxy with orthopraxy.

It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

We're big fans of the idea that faith without works is dead.

RELIGION IS DOING; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy. Whether he likes it or not he shows his attitude towards religion by his actions and he can show his attitude only by his actions. Therefore if his actions are opposed to those which are demanded by a given religion he cannot assert that he belongs to that religion.

study to practice in life that which the Lord commands, and then be you assured that you shall never hear nor read the same without fruit.

Faith isn't the ability to believe long and far into the misty future. It's simply taking God at His Word and taking the next step.

It is simply absurd to say you believe, or even want to believe, in Him, if you do not do anything He tells you.

A lot of people can talk about their faith. When you live it every day and act on the word of God, it's pretty cool to see.

I know when you do things systematically, non-stop, and repetition, that's how you make things happen in your life. It's the same thing in faith.

I'm the type to say a prayer and then go get what I just prayed for.

Believing prayer will lead to whole-hearted action.

A world of confusion and disappointment results from trying to believe without obeying.

If I wanted to doubt, then I could doubt endlessly, but at some point a person has to stop questioning and act, and at that point you have to trust something to be true. You have to act as if something is true, and so you choose the thing you have the most reason to believe in, you have to live in the world that you have the most hope in.

Christian obedience, by its very nature, has a heroic character.

If we try to obey without faith, we get nowhere. If we try to have faith without obedience, it ends in nothing.

Believing requires action.

Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.

We tend to believe in the modern secular world that if you tell someone something once, they'll remember it. ... Religions go, "Nonsense. You need to keep repeating the lesson 10 times a day. So get on your knees and repeat it." That's what all religions tell us: "Get on your knees and repeat it 10 or 20 or 15 times a day." Otherwise our minds are like sieves.

Unless we do his teachings, we do not demonstrate faith in him.

Religion is behavior and not mere belief.

What we live is what we believe. Everything else is just so much religious talk.

Faith, if it be a living faith, will be a working faith.

Don't fall into the trap of studying the Bible without doing what it says.

A ton of prayer will never produce what an ounce of obedience will.

If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve.