Faithful Action Quotes

The reaction of people of faith to this tendency of democracy to obscure the divine authority behind government should not be resignation to it, but the resolution to combat it as effectively as possible…. The Lord…did justice – through His minister, the state.

Too many are willing to sit at God’s table, but not work in his field.

Teach me, my God and king In all things thee to see And what I do in anything To do it as for thee

A scared world needs a fearless church.

I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him.

In this world of ours, every believer must be a spark of light, a center of love, a vivifying ferment for the mass; and it will be that all the more as, in the depths of his being, he lives in communion with God.

The work of man is to respond to the Covenant by obeying the commandments of the Torah, those commandments that can be obeyed here and now.

We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in God’s work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

The divine power moves with difficulty, but at the same time surely.

The Gospel is a very dangerous idea. We have to see how much of that dangerous idea we can perform in our own lives. There is nothing innocuous or safe about the Gospel. Jesus did not get crucified because he was a nice man.

For a work to be considered good it must not only conform outwardly to the law of God, but it must be motivated inwardly by a sincere love for God.

Sometimes God presents opportunities that look insignificant or rather ordinary. Perhaps you don't see how they fit into the big picture for your life. But if God is asking you to do something, He has a purpose for it.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

I don't know every step I'm supposed to take. I think Jesus just wants me to take the next step.

Allah does not change the condition of a people until they change themselves

When God says go forward, don't even think about standing still.

Such debates [about the nature of Scripture], in my view, distract attention from the real point of what the Bible is there for. Squabbling over particular definitions of the qualities of the Bible is like a married couple squabbling over which of them loves the children more, when they should be getting on with bringing them up and setting them a good example. The Bible is there to enable God's people to be equipped to do God's work in God's world, not to give them an excuse to sit back smugly, knowing they possess all God's truth.

Through our faith, we gain the courage to take action. And through action, we move one step closer toward the manifestation of our desires.

Have you noticed how much praying for revival has been going on of late - and how little revival has resulted? I believe the problem is that we have been trying to substitute praying for obeying, and it simply will not work.

God gives us resources according to our dreams and according to our obedience. And God doesn't give those resources until we've started walking in obedience.

I think that God means that we shall do more than we have yet done in furtherance of his plans and he will open the way for our doing it.

I know the two great commandments, and I'd better get on with them.

A Christian is something before he does anything; and we have to be Christian before we can act as Christians.

Go for the purposes of God, and the means to fulfill them will follow.