Spiritual Action Quotes

Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.

Now we not only need to say more about the Book of Mormon, but we need to do more with it.

It is not sufficient to pray diligently for guidance, but this prayer must be followed by meditation as to the best methods of action and then action itself... because prayers can only be answered through action and if someone's action is wrong, God can use that method of showing the pathway which is right.

Our dear Lord said we should pray always. Everything we are doing should be either a prayer in itself or can be made into a prayer. Any action that is not in itself wrong can be done in union with God and His divine will.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

True faith is focused in and on the Lord Jesus Christ and always leads to action.

A biblical understanding of the Christian life is not 'let go and let God,' it's 'trust God and get going.'

Today is the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation. Let us work and pray.

The world is full of resonances. It constitutes a cosmos of things exerting a spiritual action. The dead matter is a living spirit.

[Action's] a Western thing. We think of the hero going into battle, rebelling against a government or an oppressor, but [in KUNDUN] action is nonaction or what appears to be nonaction. That's a hard concept for Western audiences. . . . We wanted to show a kind of moral action, a spiritual action, an emotional action. Some people will pick up on it; some won't.

The Bhagavad-Gita has a profound influence on the spirit of mankind by its devotion to God which is manifested by actions.

One of the greatest sermons ever pronounced on missionary work is this simple thought attributed to Saint Francis of Assisi: “Preach the gospel at all times and if necessary, use words.” Opportunities to do so are all around us. Do not miss them by waiting too long on the road to Damascus.

When Jesus sees a heart that can't wait, He cant wait either. At the wedding at Cana, Jesus may have done nothing if it wasn't for Mary's faith. How many situations are we in now that God won't act without our faith?

Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.

Until you pray, God cannot work.

Divinity consists in use and practice, not in speculation.

The Puritan did not stop to think; he recognized God in his soul, and acted.

My children, the secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice.

God is inexhaustibly attainable in the totality of our action.

Religions, creeds and forms are only a characteristic outward sign of the spiritual impulsion and religion itself is the intensive action by which it tries to find its inward force. Its expansive movement comes in the thought which it throws out on life, the ideals which open up new horizons and which the intellect accepts and life labours to assimilate.

The early doctrines of the church, even doctrines like Trinity and Incarnation were originally also calls for action, calls for selflessness, calls for compassion, and unless you live that out compassionately, selflessly, you didn't understand what the doctrine was saying.

The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.

Prayer presupposes faith. No prayer is in vain. Prayer is like any other action.

God does work through both pure and impure vessels but that does not mean that one should keep nature impure for ever. When the vessel will become pure the urge for action coming from within will be a flawless, definitive action. As long as that does not happen one has to minimize one's activities.

Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.