Even within that, it basically says that when God calls you to action, passivity is considered bad.

God has often helped those who helped themselves. Sitting back doing nothing, hoping someone else will do it all for us isn't us being worthy. It isn't us performing the will of God. It is just us being too cowardly to self sacrifice in the name of our peers and to improve the world in a positive way, to break the chains of those who would destroy us.