Belief in Action Quotes

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.

A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.

What is faith if it is not translated into action?

To me, Faith is not just a noun but also a verb

You must make, always. You must act, if you believe something. Talking about acting is like boasting about pictures you're going to paint. The most terrible bad form.

If you’re not acting on your beliefs, then they probably aren’t real.

Faith is knowing and thinking those truths: charity is willing and doing them.

Faith is the substance of whatever it is that we hope for. The important thing is that we teach that faith is connected to good works and responsibility.

The faith that acts not, is it truly faith?

Faith moves mountains, but only knowledge moves them to the right place.

All action is vicarious faith.

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.

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

Faith does not inquire whether there are good works to be done, but even before asking questions, faith has done the works already.

In order for us to be able to love, we need to have faith, because faith is love in action and love in action is service. In order for us to be able to love, we have to see and touch. Faith in action through prayer, faith in action through service: each is the same thing, the same love, the same compassion.

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

You must believe in what you're doing, that what you're doing is the proper thing, the right thing. And you must have faith that things will end up as they should, which doesn't mean as you want them to, but things will work out as they should.

We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.

We need to live the life that we say we believe in.

You have to take risks on policy. You can't be a politician, wringing your hands, worried about what the public opinion polls are saying or worried about the negative attacks. If you believe in something, go fight for it.

That's the key - to maintain the garden of liberty, right? This is a generational thing that we must all do continuously. We only have the rights that we protect. It doesn't matter what we say or think we have. It's not enough to believe in something; it matters what we actually defend.

True faith is never found alone; it is accompanied by expectation.

But there were some things I believed in. Some things I had faith in. And faith isn't about perfect attendance to services, or how much money you put on the little plate. It isn't about going skyclad to the Holy Rites, or meditating each day upon the divine. Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others - even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.

Faith without works is dead just as a movement without works is also dead.

We live by faith, and faith lives by exercise.