Deeds Quotes - Page 20

The human measure of a human life is its income; the divine measure of a life is its outgo, its overflow its contribution to the welfare of all.... If every word spoken in behalf of truth has its influence and every deed done for the right weighs in the final account, it is immaterial to the Christian whether his eyes behold victory or whether he dies in the midst of conflict.

He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.

When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly. But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. Or wonder who, after all, you are.

Every time we sin in thought, word, or deed, we're essentially saying in that moment that, "I don't need you God. I don't want you God. I like my way better than your way."

... by doing you shall know What it is you have to do.

To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.

A life-whether seamstress or poet, farmer or king-is measured not by length, but by the worth of its deeds, and the power of its dreams.

Nice things are done for our own sake, not for the sake of others. The pleasure must reside in the performance, not in the applause. Good deeds are, in a deeper psychological way, a favor to oneself. If this is not grasped, then our whole sense of personal relationships becomes warped.

Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.

As small as it may seem, a good deed is always worth the doing.

I’m such an idiot - the thing was I was in there because this homeless guy was hungry. I went past and thought ‘I’m going to go in and get him some wedges.’ I was actually doing a good deed. It’s so me to end up the other way around where I’ve done damage.

The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.

Let each man be judged by his deeds, I have paid my price to live with myself on the terms that I willed.

In the chapter on study we considered the importance of observing ourselves to see how often our speech is a frantic attempt to explain and justify our actions. Having seen this in ourselves, let's experiment with doing deeds without any words of explanation whatever. We note our sense of fear that people will misunderstand why we have done what we have done. We seek to allow God to be our justifier.

Forgiveness does not overlook the deed. It rises above it.

Spirit, Patience, Gentleness, All that can adorn and bless Art thou let deeds, not words, express Thine exceeding loveliness.

We are not to preach the doing of good things; good deeds are not to be preached, they are to be performed.

Im not a person who wants to die with my shoes on. I do not think I can be immortal. Maybe my deeds will be immortal. Not me.

Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times.

The truth is, we live in deeds, not days; in actions and thoughts and feelings, not heartbeats.

Some people are born empty. All manner of good deeds and patience and loving kindness can't even begin to fill them up.

History is the chronicle of divorces between creed and deed.

I have insisted that we must be tolerant. But I also believe that this tolerance has its limits. We must not trust those anti-humanitarian religions which not only preach destruction but act accordingly. For if we tolerate them, then we become ourselves responsible for for their deeds.

As for religious faith, a lack of it shouldn't stop us from doing good deeds for their own sake.

I did not want to be taken for a fool-the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse.