Famous Quotes, Inspirational Words & Timeless Wisdom

Ability involves responsibility. Power to its last particle is duty.

— Alexander Maclaren

Wisdom

Man is not altogether an imbecile. True, "circumstances do make the man." But they make him only in the sense and degree that he permits them to make him.

— G. D. Boardman

Wisdom

What we do upon a great occasion will probably depend upon what we already are; what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline, under the grace of Christ or the absence of it.

— H. P. Liddon

Wisdom

Moral conduct includes every thing in which men are active and for which they are accountable. They are active in their desires, their affections, their designs, their intentions, and in every thing they say and do of choice; and for all these things they are accountable to God.

— Emmons

Wisdom

The end of man is an action, and not a thought, though it were the noblest.

— Thomas Carlyle

Wisdom

Existence was given us for action, rather than indolent and aimless contemplation; our worth is determined by the good deeds we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel. They greatly mistake, who suppose that God cares for no other pursuit than devotion.

— E. L. Magoon

Wisdom

Christian life is action: not a speculating, not a debating, but a doing. One thing, and only one, in this world has eternity stamped upon it. Feelings pass; resolves and thoughts pass; opinions change. What you have done lasts—lasts in you. Through ages, through eternity, what you have done for Christ, that, and only that, you are.

— F. W. Robertson

Life

It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.

— Horace Mann

Wisdom

Man, being essentially active, must find in activity his joy, as well as his beauty and glory; and labor, like every thing else that is good, is its own reward.

— Bishop Whipple

Happiness

Be thy best thoughts to work divine addressed; Do something,—do it soon—with all thy might; An angel's wing would droop if long at rest, And God Himself inactive were no longer blessed.

— Carlos Wilcox

Success

When I read the life of such a man as Paul, how I blush to think how sickly and dwarfed Christianity is at the present time, and how many hundreds there are who never think of working for the Son of God and honoring Christ.

— D. L. Moody

Success

I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.

— Adam Clarke

Happiness

I have never heard any thing about the resolutions of the disciples, but a great deal about the Acts of the Apostles.

— Horace Mann

Wisdom

The life of man is made up of action and endurance; and life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance.

— H. P. Liddon

Life

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity.

— Lavater

Wisdom

Look around you, and you will behold the universe full of active powers. Action is, so to speak, the genius of nature. By motion and exertion, the system of being is preserved in vigor. By its different parts always acting in subordination one to another, the perfection of the whole is carried on. The heavenly bodies perpetually revolve. Day and night incessantly repeat their appointed course. Continual operations are going on in the earth and in the waters. Nothing stands still. All is alive and stirring throughout the universe. In the midst of this animated and busy scene, is man alone to remain idle in his place? Belongs it to him to be the sole inactive and slothful being in the creation, when in so many various ways he might improve his own nature; might advance the glory of the God who made him; and contribute his part in the general good?

— Blair

Wisdom

Activity in the kingdom of God augments the power of spiritual life, and deepens the consciousness of religious realities.

— William Adams

Life

The history of the Church of Christ from the days of the Apostles has been a history of spiritual movements .

— H. P. Liddon

Wisdom

It is much easier to settle a point than to act on it.

— Richard Cecil

Wisdom

Unselfish and noble acts are the most radiant epochs in the biography of souls.

— David Thomas

Wisdom

Haste thee on from grace to glory, Armed by faith and winged by prayer, Heaven's eternal day's before thee; God's own hand shall guide thee there.

— H. F. Lyte

Wisdom

I do not say the mind gets informed by action,—bodily action; but it does get earnestness and strength by it, and that nameless something that gives a man the mastership of his faculties.

— Wm. Mountford

Courage

The essential elements of giving are power and love—activity and affection—and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

— Mark Hopkins

Love

All mental discipline and symmetrical growth are from activity of the mind under the yoke of the will or personal power.

— Mark Hopkins

Wisdom