Pastoral Resources

When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.

My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever course of action needed to be taken was his idea. Then he'd go right ahead.

I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.

I enjoy 'Supermarket Sweep' because of its adlib demands in following the fast action.

But, it is hard too, because I want to do another action film. Believe it or not, it was fun.

At the same time, reading an action script... It makes me wonder. Was The Matrix a good script? I don't know.

Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions.

Yet we act as if simple cause and effect is at work. We push to find the one simple reason things have gone wrong. We look for the one action, or the one person, that created this mess. As soon as we find someone to blame, we act as if we've solved the problem.

Thinking is the place where intelligent actions begin. We pause long enough to look more carefully at a situation, to see more of its character, to think about why it's happening, to notice how it's affecting us and others.

The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Decisive action has been taken on the home front with passage of the USA Patriot Act, which has strengthened the hand of law enforcement agencies to stop terrorists before they can act.

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'

A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.

I think it's very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you're responsible for your actions, so you don't blame other people.

Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest.