4 Dinah Craik Quotes on Action

Dinah Craik quotes on action

4. When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.

23. Do your neighbour good by all means in your power, moral as well as physical - by kindness, by patience, by unflinching resistance against every outward evil - by the silent preaching of your own contrary life. But if the only good you can do him is by talking at him, or about him - nay, even to him, if it be in a self-satisfied, super-virtuous style - such as I earnestly hope the present writer is not doing - you had much better leave him alone. ~ Ch. 8

55. Action is the parent of results; dormancy, the brooding mother of discontent.

59. A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without vision is but drudgery. A vision with a task is the hope of the world.