Deeds Quotes - Page 13

In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain.

The better day, the worse deed.

Jesus is a personal symbol of the Holy Spirit. Having been totally healed by the Holy Spirit, Jesus became one with him. Every thought, action, and deed of Jesus was guided by the Holy Spirit instead of ego.

Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.

It is easy to understand that the best deed is well done: and so well as the best deed is done - the highest - so well is the least deed done; and all thing in its property and in the order that our Lord hath ordained it to from without beginning. For there is no doer but He.

Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another.

The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Arise now, arise, Riders of Théoden! Dire deeds awake, dark is it eastward. Let horse be bridled, horn be sounded! Forth Eorlingas!

The last possible deed is that which defines perception itself, an invisible golden chord that connects us: illegal dancing in the courthouse corridors.

A good deed never goes unpunished.

You reap what you sow — not something else, but that. An act of love makes the soul more loving. A deed of humbleness deepens humbleness. The thing reaped is the very thing sown, multiplied a hundred fold. You have sown a seed of life, you reap life everlasting.

Those who think clean thoughts do not do dirty deeds.

The only thing you believe in is the thing you believe in enough to practice. Your creed is your deed.

Sin corrupts even our good deeds. We injure our shoulder trying to pat ourselves on the back.

And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one.

According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.

If a man would reap praise, you must sow the seeds, gentle words and useful deeds.

It is necessary that... we should believe that we are as capable of producing great art as we believe we are capable of doing great deeds.

Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.

I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty.

Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.

The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them.

The image wanders ghostlike through the present. Ghostly apparitions occur only in places where a terrible deed has been committed.

Humankind's ladder to God is a ladder of deeds.