Bayard Rustin Quotes

Simply believing in the existence of God is not exactly what I would call a commitment. After all, even the devil believes that God exists. Believing has to change the way we live.

But it is curious how you can see that an idea is absolutely true and correct and yet not believe it deeply enough to act on it.

Believing requires action.

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

Belief means nothing without actions

The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Is a faith without action a sincere faith?

Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?

When truth cannot make itself known in words, it will make itself known in deeds.

Until you do what you believe in, you don't know whether you believe it or not.

Anyone can believe when God is already moving. But real faith is when you step out when it seems that God is not moving.

What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do. I used to say that I believed it was important to tell people about Jesus, but I never did. A friend kindly explained that if I do not introduce people to Jesus, then I don't believe Jesus is an important person. It doesn't matter what I say. We live for what we believe.

What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do.

All action is vicarious faith.

I've had moments in my life where it was all out on the table. Everything I had. I'm okay with that, because I had a strong belief that what I was doing other people could believe in it, too, if I can get it just right.

We have to believe it enough that it changes how we live.

Knowing the 'right answers' does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they're true.

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

Anything that I do is something that I'm passionate about and really believe in, no matter how it turns out.

The ideal is not believing in, but believing from.

Religion is behavior and not mere belief.

What we say we believe makes very little difference until we act on our belief

If you only believe when it's easy, you don't really believe.