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Sermon Illustrations: Action

There was a party in a lounge. One asked, "If you were on a ship which sank and you could escape to an isolated island, having the possibility to take only one book from the ship's library, which one would you choose?" One answered, 'Shakespeare," another, "the Bible." But another said, "I would choose a book which could teach me how to make a boat and arrive at the shore. There I would be free to read whatever I like." R. Wurmbrand

Behold the turtle; he makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Bach, Beethoven, Wagner and Mozart settled down day after day to the job with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day in his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration. Ernest Newman.

A man wrote to his girlfriend, "Susie, I love you so much. I would climb the highest mountain, cross the driest desert, sail the most tempestuous seas. See you Sunday if it doesn't rain."

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain