129. TAKE ACTION!        --page 1006--

         I must work the works of Him that sent Me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work (Jn.9:4).

         1. Don't just stand there!--Do something!
         2. We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
         3. The quicker you begin, the quicker you win!
         4. Well begun is half done.
         5. Dreading a task can be more tiring than doing it.
         6. The best plans remain only daydreams until you bring them to life through action.
         7. The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
         8. The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention.
         9. A mistake at least proves somebody stopped talking long enough to do something.
         10. All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
         11. You do what you can and God will do what you can't!
         12. You do your best and God will do the rest.
         13. Do more than exist--live! Do more than look--observe. Do more than read--absorb. Do more than hear--listen. Do more than listen--understand. Do more than think--reflect. Do more than plan--act. Do more than talk--say something!
         14. Skill to do comes of doing.
         15. Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.
         16. The World is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition.
         17. Doing beats stewing.
         18. The kindness planned for tomorrow doesn't count for today.
         19. You never know what you can do till you try.
         20. Out of the strain of the doing,
         Into the peace of the done.
         21. You can be destroyed by defending, instead of attacking. Never let yourself get put on the defensive.
         22. The man who stands still always impedes the World's progress.
         23. If you can't do everything, do everything you can!
         24. Do you want to work miracles?--Get out there and God will do them! Do you want compassion for souls?--Get out there and face the need, and God will give it.
         25. Some people don't find anything to do because they're not even looking!
         26. If you see it needs to be done, do it!
         27. Don't tell me you believe in something if you're not doing it!
         28. You can't do more than you can do, but for God's sake you can do what you can!
         29. We may not be perfect!--But we're the best!--And doing the best we can!
         30. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
         31. It is better to get your hands dirty and eat, than to be too proud to work and starve!
         32. Are you sitting on the premises or standing on the promises?
         33. There are at least 4 things you can do with your hands: You can wring them in despair, you can fold them in idleness, you can clench them in anger, or you can put them to some useful task.
         34. I am only one, but I am one.
         35. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. What I can do, I ought to do. And what I ought to do, by God's grace, I will do.
         36. The only way we're going to know if you can take it and receive it and believe it, is if you do it!
         37. The thought becomes the father of the deed.
         38. If you don't know where to go or how to do it, just get out and start, and He'll lead you! The boat has to be in motion before the rudder can take effect.
         39. It's impossible to win a defensive warfare. To win a war you have to go on the attack, go on the offensive. A passive defence never won a war.
         40. It pays to face your fears, recognise they're there, decide between the real and the unreal, and go on the attack to dispel the vaporous fiction of the fairy tale and to drive away the genuine reality of real threat.
         41. The Children of God are launching the attack, are on the offensive and are raiding the Devil's territory!
         42. We need idea men, not just yes men!--Idea men who can think of things and tell me what to do, and not sit there and wait to be told what to do!
         43. Any situation that a leader can't handle, they need to report to a superior officer who can handle it, at least report it to them in time in hopes that something can be done about it.
         44. If the Devil can't persuade you not to serve God, then he tries to get you so weighed down with things, problems and time and energy and money-wasters that you can't even move.

         (See also No. 4, 33, 66, 171, 565, 597, 606, 611, 721, 829, 951, 1023, 1090, 1268, 1392, 1394, 1548.)

         45. LUK.11:28 But He said, Yea, rather, blessed are they that hear the Word of God, and keep it.
         46. ROM.2:13 For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
         47. JAM.1:22 But be ye doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.


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