Deeds Quotes - Page 37

• Somehow, what's in our hearts, good or bad is eventually translated into words and deeds.

  Andy Stanley

  God, Christian, Religious

  Andy Stanley (2011). “Enemies of the Heart: Breaking Free from the Four Emotions That Control You”, p.31, Multnomah

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• The sin which makes you sad and repentant is more liked by Allah than the good deed which turns you arrogant.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Arrogant, Sin, Turns

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• Here lies the tremendous mystery - that God should be all-powerful, yet refuse to coerce. He summons us to cooperation. We are honored in being given the opportunity to participate in his good deeds. Remember how He asked for help in performing his miracles: Fill the water pots, stretch out your hand, distribute the loaves.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Powerful, Lying, Opportunity

  Elisabeth Elliot (1987). “A Lamp for My Feet: The Bible's Light for Daily Living”, Vine Books

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• The movement of the Spirit of God in the hearts of men and women often calls them to act against the spirit of their times or causes them to anticipate a spirit which is yet in the making. In a moment of dedication they are given wisdom and courage to dare a deed that challenges and to kindle a hope that inspires.

  Howard Thurman

  Heart, Men, Dedication

  "Footprints of a Dream : The Story of the Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples" by Howard Thurman, (p. 7), 1959.

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• If for every well-intended prayer uttered in hopes of making the world a better place, there was instead a good deed accomplished, the world might look as though those prayers had been answered.

  David G. McAfee

  Prayer, Looks, World

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• Be grateful as your deeds become less and less associated with your name, as your feet ever more lightly tread the earth.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Grateful, Names, Feet

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• Champions never brag, never shout, never have to go to extremes to build themselves up for others or put others down. They let their actions, deeds, and results speak for them.

  Denis Waitley

  Champion, Action, Speak

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• In the order of nature, we cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive them, or only seldom. But the benefit we receive must be rendered again, line for line, deed for deed, cent for cent, to somebody. Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hands, Order, Benefits

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.66, Harvard University Press

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• My words, thoughts and deeds have a boomerang effect. So be-careful what you send out!

  Alan Rufus

  Mind, Boomerang, Be Careful

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• My acts are irrevocable
  Because they have no essence...
  Where are the doers of deeds
  Absent among their conditions?
  Imagine a magician
  Who creates a creature
  Who creates other creatures.
  Acts I perform are creatures
  Who create others.

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Essence, Doers, Emptiness

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• The hero is brave in deeds as well as words.

  Aesop

  Life, Hero, Brave

  Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection”, p.44, Lulu.com

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• Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good...it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as to draw him away entirely from good deeds.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Men, Evil, Sloth

  Saint Thomas Aquinas, Catholic Way Publishing (2014). “The Summa Theologica: Complete Edition”, p.5673, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Ask yourself, "How are my thoughts, words and deeds affecting my friends, my spouse, my neighbour, my child, my employer, my subordinates, my fellow citizens?"

  Epictetus

  Life, Children, Citizens

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• Pause and remember-- Every moment is a choice. Every thought, word and deed is creating your future. Choose wisely and positively!

  Jennifer Young

  Positive Thinking, Creating, Choices

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• The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect can be won with good deeds; but the Tao is beyond all value, and no one can achieve it. Thus, when a new leader is chosen, don't offer to help him with your wealth or your expertise. Offer instead to teach him about the Tao. Why did the ancient Masters esteem the Tao? Because, being one with the Tao, when you seek, you find; and when you make a mistake, you are forgiven. That is why everybody loves it.

  Laozi

  Mistake, Men, Leader

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• And on Thursday, President Obama seized the opportunity of the National Prayer Breakfast to forthrightly criticize the 'terrible deeds' . . . committed 'in the name of Christ.'.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Prayer, Opportunity, Names

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• Most people think of love as some sort of power outside of themselves that will "take them away from all of this." Sadly, this is not the case. Love exists only within our own hearts, and to have happy relationships we must first become truly loving people. And as we fill our hearts with love by expressing love for others in thought, word, and deed ("acting as if" until we make it happen if necessary), that love can heal our own lives, help to solve our problems, and enable us to feel good about ourselves.

  John Templeton

  Love, Heart, Thinking

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• Love of country is the Mason's deed; world citizenship is his thought.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Country, World, Masonic

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• We satisfy our endless needs and justify our bloody deeds in the name of destiny and in the name of God.

  Don Henley

  Spiritual, Atheist, Science

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• In time, Mr Hall, one gets to recognize that sneer, that hardness, for fornication extends far beyond the actual deed. Were it a deed only, I for one would not hold it anathema. But when the nations went a whoring they invariably ended by denying God, I think, and until all sexual irregularities and not some of them are penal the Church will never reconquer England.

  E. M. Forster

  Atheist, Thinking, Church

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• He didn't know whether we created God in our own image or whether God created us without quite knowing what he was doing. He believed that God, or whatever brought us here, lives in each of our deeds, in each of our words, and manifests himself in all those things that show us to be more than mere figures of clay.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Knowing, Clay, Our Words

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• We only have the past that we have. Not all of our deeds were incorrect.

  Henning Mankell

  Past

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• Today, not a numerous, but an active part of the German people are beginning to realize, not that they have been led astray, not that bad times await them, not that the war may end in defeat, but that what is happening is sin and that they are personally responsible for each terrible deed that has been committed - naturally, not in the earthly sense, but as Christians.

  Helmuth James Graf von Moltke

  Christian, War, People

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• Intercessory prayer is exceedingly prevalent. What wonders it has wrought! The Word of God teems with its marvelous deeds. Believer, thou hast a mighty engine in thy hand, use it well, use it constantly, use it with faith, and thou shalt surely be a benefactor to thy brethren.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Hands, Use

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.152, Discovery House

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• You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Men, Ideas

  Victor Hugo (2008). “Things Seen and Essays”, p.67, Wildside Press LLC

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