belief and action Quotes

As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works.

You can no more trust Jesus and not intend to obey him than you could trust your doctor and your auto mechanic and not intend to follow their advice. If you don't intend to follow their advice, you simply don't trust them. Period.

Pray as if all depended on God and work as if all depended upon you.

The trouble with deep belief is that it costs something. And there is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't like the truth at all because it carries responsibility, and if I actually believe these things I have to do something about them. It is so, so cumbersome to believe anything. And it isn't cool.

Truly, if faith is there, the believer cannot hold back... he breaks out into good works.

It is time we recognized that belief is not a private matter; it has never been merely private. In fact, beliefs are scarcely more private than actions are, for every belief is a fount of action in potential.

Only the believer obeys — obedience follows faith, the way good fruit comes from a good tree. Only the obedient believe.