Top 100 Action Faith Quotes
#1. Joy is love exalted; peace is love in repose; long-suffering is love enduring; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in action; faith is love on the battlefield; meekness is love in school; and temperance is love in training.
D.L. Moody
#2. Hope is the mainspring of human action; faith seals our lease of immortality; and charity and love give the passport to the soul's true and lasting happiness.
Alfred Billings Street
#3. Faith is an action. Faith is acting on what you believe. If your believing is inaccurate your actions will be inaccurate and your faith will not produce. That is one of the most difficult things for Christians to grasp. Faith is an action. Faith is acting on what you believe.
Jerry Savelle
#4. LUCK is a word used by people who did not take action when greatest opportunities were presented. They use it to describe the success of those who have acted.
Some use FAITH to describe what others call LUCK
Elie Jerome
#5. Faith may be relied upon to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation.
Aldous Huxley
#6. Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action.
John Henry Newman
#7. You know, Monsieur, that, although the contemplative life is more perfect than the active life, it is not, however, more so than one which embraces at the same time contemplation and action, as does yours, by God's grace.
Vincent De Paul
#8. When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.
Dinah Maria Mulock
#9. Faith is an action, based on a belief, supported by confidence.
R. W. Schambach
#10. Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.
Joseph Campbell
#12. Leadership calls for both wisdom and courage; the wisdom to know what to do is only half the battle. We must be courageous enough to actually do it.
Kellen Roggenbuck
#13. ...go forward with the inclination to live with a faith that embodies action, help a neighbor, fight for a cause, love your family.
William A. Petit Jr.
#14. Your responsibility is to not question God's actions or what looks like a lack of action. Your obligation is to count on God's character.
Jim George
#15. Prayer presupposes faith. No prayer is in vain. Prayer is like any other action.
Mahatma Gandhi
#16. Faith is the God .
Action is the Body..
Be in Faith and Action ...
Then success will be your Goal....
Mathew
#18. Any action, like any act of magic, is in some sense an act of faith ... I've seen the desert bloom, the flower that emerges from the barest hint of water, and I know the power of life will rise, stubborn and persistent to be renewed. May our actions be the wind that brings the rain.
Starhawk
#19. You can always cope with the Now, but you can never cope with the future - nor do you have to. The answer, the strength, the right action or the resource will be there when you need it, not before, not after.
Eckhart Tolle
#20. Faith without action is delusion. Faith does not wait for miracles but produces them. If you think you can or if you think you can't, you are right.
Henry Ford
#22. The Hoffman Process brings forth spiritual leadership in a person. It made my spirituality come alive. Through the Hoffman Process I actually brought my faith into my daily actions.
Ken Blanchard
#23. Saint Francis of Assisi understood the power of faith put into action to change the human heart, for it was he who said, "Preach the gospel always; when necessary use words." We had not yet spoken a word in their language, but the village elders had already "heard" the gospel.
Richard Stearns
#24. The future of religion is connected with the possibility of developing a faith in the possibilities of human experience and human relationships that will create a vital sense of the solidarity of human interests and inspire action to make that sense a reality.
John Dewey
#25. A definite purpose, backed by absolute faith, is a form of wisdom and wisdom in action produces positive results.
Napoleon Hill
#27. Some of the greatest miracles one could ever receive in their life is the ones that happen when their faith and action has been applied.
Dionna L. Hayden
#29. Hope, like faith, is a principle of action. It motivates and inspires. We do not sit in our armchairs and hope for hope; we get up and go to work.
David S. Baxter
#30. Hope finds its fulfillment when nurtured through faith and shared with love.
Mollie Marti
#31. Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.
Jonathan Edwards
#32. I love the Pope, I love seeing him in his Pope-Mobile, his three feet of bullet proof plexi-glass. That's faith in action folks! You know he's got God on his side.
Bill Hicks
#33. All we need to begin with is a # dream that we can do better than before. All we need to have is faith, and that dream will come true. All we need to do is act, and the time for action is now.
Carl Sandburg
#34. My challenge: Name an ethical statement or action, made or performed by a person of faith, that could not have been made or performed by a nonbeliever.
Christopher Hitchens
#36. At any moment we can demonstrate our faith by taking action that shows our belief in God's promises!
Alisa Hope Wagner
#38. Faith in action is love, and love in action is service. By transforming that faith into living acts of love, we put ourselves in contact with God Himself, with Jesus our Lord.
Mother Teresa
#39. Faith is the poetry of our dreams; action is the builder of our reality.
Steve Maraboli
#40. For every Gospel action, there is an opposite and devious demonic reaction. We see this in the book of Acts. It appears in church history. We experience it in our personal journeys.
Daniel Henderson
#41. To simply say "I believe" in something is not enough. If you want to have an impact in this world, you must put your beliefs and your faith into action.
Nick Vujicic
#44. I feel that very frequently prayer is made a refuge to dodge the action of faith.
John G. Lake
#46. Writers need faith, or else we can never trust the action of our words!
Leslie Austin
#47. You're assuming that love is a feeling. It isn't. It can involve feelings, but often it doesn't. Love acts out of faith, which rarely involves feelings. Love is action; it's deciding something is true and living out of that belief.
Donald Miller
#48. Faith is not blind if you consistently take the right actions to reveal it.
Charles F. Glassman
#49. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action.
Fidel Castro
#50. Is a faith without action a sincere faith?
Jean Racine
#51. Tis action moves the world ... [in] the game of chess, mind that: ye cannot leave your men to stand unmoving on the board and hope to win. A soldier must first step upon the battlefield if does mean to cross it.
Susanna Kearsley
#52. Faith without any accompanying action is suspect".
~R. Alan Woods [2012]
R. Alan Woods
#53. Life has taught me one supreme lesson. This is that we must - if we are really to live at all, if we are to enjoy the life more abundant promised by the Sages of Wisdom - we must put our convictions into action. My remuneration has been that I have been privileged to act out my faith.
Margaret Sanger
#55. A great woe underpinning the sorrows of the world today is this: so many people think they are far better than others and they are too righteous than others, and they know far better than others, and such thoughts give them reasons for an otherwise action!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#56. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life become more secure, more fraught with action, richer in experience and achievement.
Eddie Rickenbacker
#57. Faith is a process in action. It cannot exist without work.
Ellen J. Barrier
#58. All created things are living in the Hand of God. The senses see only the action of the creatures; but faith sees in everything the action of God.
Jean-Pierre De Caussade
#59. The person who thinks with [their] own brain is to be preferred to the one who blindly approves everything ... Better an error consciously committed and in good faith, than a good action performed in a servile manner.
Errico Malatesta
#60. There is a time for faith, Bishop, and a time for action. It would be a foolish man who stood on a battlefield and faced an army with a Bible in his hands. We are here to do the bidding of our Lord Almighty, but it is through deeds, as well as piety, that we serve Him.
Robyn Young
#61. It is a terrible commentary on Christian civilization that the longest period of slave-raiding known to history was initiated by the action of Spain, Portugal, France, Holland and Britain, after the Christian faith had for more than a thousand years been the established religion of Europe.
H.A.L. Fisher
#62. Trust is both an attitude and an action. Your first small step must be followed by another, and another, until you realize that God has indeed made a way for you to know him personally. The more you act on your faith in God, the more you will see of his way for you.
Henry Cloud
#63. True faith is focused in and on the Lord Jesus Christ and always leads to action.
David A. Bednar
#64. Perhaps fate has a way of turning things around and making something good out of the action of someone who failed humanity without meaning to.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#65. You are fooling yourself if you have read the Bible from cover to cover and you do not care more for the lost and hurting and broken than you did before you read it.
Dillon Burroughs
#66. We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back.
David Seabury
#67. You have the power to shape your life the way you want it to be. Every though, every word, every action guides you with a purpose. And that purpose is to fulfill your destiny. Some may say you're just a dreamer. But everything imagined began with a dream.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#68. I do know that the right words, spoken from the heart with conviction, with a vision of a better place and a faith in the unseen, are a call to action.
Deval Patrick
#69. If religion comprises rules you follow, faith is demonstrated by the actions you take.
Seth
#70. [Do not] overburden yourself with rules of devotion, but persist in doing well those you have, your daily actions, your work; in a word, let everything revolve around doing well what you are doing.
Vincent De Paul
#71. God has written us a book, and now we have the opportunity to respond with our words and actions.
Jared Brock
#72. Death is teacher enough, true faith is wealth enough, and worship is action enough.
Umar
#73. Loving the self involves faith and trust and belief in who you are, and a willingness to take action upon it.
Sanaya Roman
#74. Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations?
Khalil Gibran
#75. Don't fear to take a daring action. It is truest act to your destiny.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#76. Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.
Mitch Albom
#77. You must go to the scene of action, first, because men put more faith in their eyes than in their ears, and second, because the way is long if one follows precepts, but short and helpful, if one follows patterns. Cleanthes
Seneca.
#78. We are blessed with a faith, which calls into action the whole intellectual man; which prescribes a reasonable service; which challenges the investigation of its evidences; and which, in the doctrine of immortality, invests the mind of man with a portion of the dignity of Divine intelligence.
Edward Everett
#79. Unlike mere action, prayer is not subject to immediate evaluation or verification. If we are addicted to "results" we will quickly lose interest in prayer.
Eugene H. Peterson
#81. Faith is a principle of action. It is our willingness to believe in the Savior that unleashes His power in our lives. Faith is not a bulwark against tribulation, but an assurance that the Lord is overseeing all.
Sheri Dew
#82. When the world seems to be spinning out of control I choose:
faith over fear;
action over paralysis;
focus over distraction;
reflection over reaction;
to stay grounded rather than getting swooped up in the chaos.
Charles F. Glassman
#83. I understand (finally) that God does not REACT to prayers or petitions. He has ACTED. It is already done.
Carlos Wallace
#84. Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world through action he is to give to it meaning.
Leo Baeck
#85. The belief that becomes truth for me ... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.
Andre Gide
#86. Faith is that which, knowing the Lord's will, goes and does it; or, not knowing it, stands and waits, content in ignorance as in knowledge, because God wills - neither pressing into the hidden future, nor careless of the knowledge which opens the path of action
George MacDonald
#88. Works without faith are like a fish without water, it wants the element it should live in. A building without a basis cannot stand; faith is the foundation, and every good action is as a stone laid.
Owen Feltham
#89. Faith is revelation. And in order to receive revelation you have to be open. Belief is about closing yourself off
a lie you tell yourself to make the world fit in with how you've decided it should be. Real faith is an action - a verb. It's truth unfolding.
Nafisa Haji
#90. My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wisdom, but unless you apply what you learned then its only words on a page. Life is not lived with intentions, but action.
Shannon L. Alder
#91. There is no limit to the heights we can reach if we take action by faith.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#92. Similarly, there are multitudes who lose their lives pondering what they ought to believe, while something lies at their door waiting to be done, and rendering it impossible for him who makes it wait, ever to know what to believe.
George MacDonald
#93. God is going to send you someone that will rescue you. Then one day you will rescue them in return and together your story will rescue others. He has always been a God of rescues and a maker of warriors for his grace. You only need to believe that you are part of something greater than you know.
Shannon L. Alder
#94. Take away your eyes from your past failures, current limitations, and future fears. Be hopeful, believe in yourself, be bold, and move on...
Assegid Habtewold
#95. There are times in my 30 years in the theater that I have come perilously close to losing faith in the one form of action I have in this life.
Athol Fugard
#97. Perfection does not come from belief or faith. Talk does not count for anything. Parrots can do that. Perfection comes through the disinterested performance of action.
Swami Vivekananda
#98. Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!
Robert G. Ingersoll
#100. I have kept a steady focus on restoring public faith in our state government since taking office July 1. Now it is time to make even bigger and bolder gains through legislative action.
Jodi Rell
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