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Quotes About Acts

When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
When God works in us, the will, being changed and sweetly breathed upon by the Spirit of God, desires and acts, not from compulsion, but responsively.
~ Martin Luther
Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Imperialism is a negation of God. It does ungodly acts in the name of God.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
All hurricanes are acts of God because God controls the heavens. I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God and they were recipients of the judgment of God for that.
~ John Hagee
Let us hope, I prayed, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.
~ Peter De Vries
Our small acts of faith and service are how most of us can continue in God and eventually bring eternal light and glory to our family, our friends, and our associates.
~ Neill F. Marriott
Evil's just destructive? Then storms are evil, if it's that simple. And we have fire, and there there's hail. Underwriters lump it all under 'Acts of God.
~ Thomas Harris
All attributes ascribed to God are attributes of His acts, and do not imply that God has any qualities.
~ Maimonides
Even a smile is a good deed.
~ Shari Arison
The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults.
~ Robert Nozick
I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.
~ C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Noble acts and momentous events happen in the same way and produce the same impression as the ordinary facts.
~ Roberto Rossellini
We should consider the histories of Christ three manner of ways; first, as a history of acts or legends; second, as a gift or a present; thirdly, as an example, which we should believe and follow.
~ Martin Luther
The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.
~ Thomas Moore
But despite their heroic acts, the Vietnam Veterans of America continued to struggle to establish a combat badge in honor of these brave pilots and medics.
~ Tim Holden
That is honor's scorn Which challenges itself as honor's born And is not like the sire. Honors thrive When rather from our acts we them derive Than our foregoers.
~ William Shakespeare
Let us hope...that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.
~ Peter De Vries
I see in the rising crescendo of ethnic tensions, civilization clashes and the use of religious justification for acts of terror, a clear and present danger to humanity.
~ Jonathan Sacks
All the good, fine, noble, and creative acts of humanity were conceived as a spark in a single human consciousness.
~ Peter McWilliams
After independence was gained, one of the first Acts passed by the Greek government was for the protection and preservation of national monuments.
~ Melina Mercouri
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
~ Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
We must never forget that our small, daily acts can total a great sum of love. They can be the stars by which others find their way through the dark voyage of life.
~ Jamie Langston Turner
Well," said Miss Goering, "perhaps my maneuvers do seem a little strange, but I have thought for a long time now that often, so very often, heroes who believe themselves to be monsters because they are so far removed from other men turn around much later and see really monstrous acts being committed in the name of something mediocre.
~ Jane Bowles