Proactive Faith Quotes

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

If we wait for the needy to walk through our church doors, we may wait a long time. God doesn't wait for people to come to Him. He goes to them.

Most of us wait until we're in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we'd wake up and say, "Anything I can do for You today, Lord?"

After saying our prayers, we ought to do something to make them come true.

For my own part, I believe that in dealing with skeptics, and unbelievers, and enemies of the Bible, Christians are too apt to stand only on the defensive. They are too often content with answering this or that little objection, or discussing this or that little difficulty, which is picked out of Scripture and thrown in their teeth. I believe we ought to act on the aggressive far more than we do, and to press home on the adversaries of [Biblical] inspiration the enormous difficulties of their own position.

While we wait for God to work for us, God is waiting to work through us.

We have to take the first step as though there were no God. It is no use to wait for God to help us, He will not: but immediately we arise we find He is there.

God doesn't move until we move first.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

I used to think God guided us by opening and closing doors, but now I know sometimes God wants us to kick some doors down.

You need to be moving if you want God to show you which way to go.

Something happens when you feel ownership. You no longer act like a spectator or consumer, because you're an owner. Faith is at its best when it's that way too. It's best lived when it's owned.

If you want to see God move make a move.

If you knew Jesus was coming tomorrow, what would you do today? Then do it!

No great spiritual event befalls those who do not summon it.

It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.

Never say you will pray about a thing; pray about it.

God is action - let us be like God.