QUOTATION: Zeal

Zeal does not consist in continual preaching, in giving good advice, in constantly exhorting to virtue, but rather in giving good example. Example impresses much more than words, and through it we often obtain astonishing results.

--St. Mary Euphrasia Pelletier, Conferences and Instructions

QUOTATION: Faith and Action

Life is for action. If we insist on proofs for everything, we shall never come to action: to act you must assume, and that assumption is faith.

--Blessed Cardinal John Henry Newman

QUOTATION: Leave the Fruits to God

Do not pursue spectacular deeds. We must deliberately renounce all desires to see the fruit of our labour, doing all we can as best we can, leaving the rest in the hands of God.

--Mother Teresa of Calcutta, No Greater Love

QUOTATION: Intention

If you want to do something but cannot, then before God, who knows our hearts, it is as if we have done it. This is true whether the intended action is good or bad.

--St. Mark the Ascetic

QUOTATION: Few Words, Many Deeds

Remember that the Christian life is one of action; not of speech and daydreams. Let there be few words and many deeds, and let them be done well.

--St. Vincent Pallotti

QUOTATION: The Essence of Christianity

Remember that the Christian life is one of action, not speech and daydreams.

--St.Vincent Pallotti

QUOTATION: Belief and Action

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

--Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

QUOTATION: Faith in Action

Let us not merely call him Lord, for that will not save us. For he says, “Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will be saved, but he who does what is right” (Matt. 7:21). Thus, brothers, let us acknowledge him by our actions, by loving one another, by refraining from adultery, backbiting, and jealousy, and by being self-controlled, compassionate, kind. We ought to have sympathy for one another and not to be avaricious. Let us acknowledge him by acting in this way and not by doing the opposite. We ought not to have greater fear of men than of God. That is why, if you act in this way, the Lord said, “If you are gathered with me in my bosom and do not keep my commands, I will cast you out and will say to you: ‘Depart from me. I do not know whence you come, you workers of iniquity.’”


--St. Clement of Alexandria

QUOTATION: Words and Deeds

Actions speak louder than words; let your words teach and your actions speak. We are full of words but empty of actions, and therefore are cursed by the Lord, since he himself cursed the fig tree when he found no fruit but only leaves. It is useless for a man to flaunt his knowledge of the law if he undermines its teaching by his actions.

--Saint Anthony of Padua

QUOTATION: Actions speak louder than words

If His Majesty revealed His love to us by doing and suffering such amazing things, how can you expect to please Him by words alone?

--St. Teresa of Avila, The Interior Castle