Quotes About Act

It is much harder to forgive yourself than it is to forgive others. You will not master the act of forgiveness until you start with yourself.

This is in essence what interested him the most: In what way do such distinct substances as the body and the soul connect in the human body and act upon one another?

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

The true substance of love lies in the act of howling words of love with a desperation of a man jumping into the high seas.

The greatest need we have is not to do things, but to believe things. The redemption of Christ is not an experience, it is the great act of God which He has performed through Christ, and I have to build my faith on it.

Sin can't be forgiven because it is not an act; you can only be forgiven for the sins you commit, not for a heredity. "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins" (1 John 1:9); sin must be cleansed by the miracle of God's grace.

Many an act that man does is right or wrong according to the time and place which form, so to speak, its context; strip it of its surrounding circumstances, and you tear away its meaning. Gentlemen reformers, beware of this common practice of yours! Beware of calling an act evil on Tuesday because that same act was evil on Monday!

But this I can say: to call any act evil, instantly begs the question. Many an act that man does is right or wrong according to the time and place which form, so to speak, its context; strip it of its surrounding circumstances, and you tear away its meaning.

Putting words onto paper—when it is done as an honest act of search or connection, rather than as an act of manipulation, performance, self-aggrandizement or self-protection—is a holy act.

Her pink hair helped her cheerful act—hard to look sad with pink hair—even if her eyes were a little pink, too.

Silence in the face of evil is itself evil," he would later write. "Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act."2

Rumor forces us to act before we are ready, or ruins a situation before it becomes fully ripe.

era realmente demasiado agradable, casi su número favorito entre todos los representantes en el escenario de su gran teatro interior, porque comunicaba la maravillosa sensación de agotamiento placentero que sigue a todo acto verdaderamente grande y heroico.

The act of writing in real time in order to deflect, escape, or slow it down is obviously futile yet not entirely fruitless.

While few would actually put it in these terms, faith is now understood as a blind act of will, a sort of decision to believe something that is either independent of reason or that makes up for the paltry lack of evidence for what one is trying to believe. By contrast, biblical faith is a power or skill to act in accordance with the nature of the kingdom of God, a trust in and commitment to what we have reason to believe is true.

God knew that our calling would be so huge and our weakness so deep that the only thing that would help us was himself. So in an act of incredible grace, he has unbuttoned us and gotten inside of us. Now think about this as a parent. This God who has the ability to do things that are way beyond your ability to conceive, who has perfect wisdom and unlimited strength, right now lives inside of you.

Prayer is much more than bringing to God your list of wants, desires, and needs. It is a radical act of worship that reminds you of who you are, who God is, and what life is all about. Prayer is surrender:

The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.

Prior to any generalization about literature, literary texts have to be read, and the possibility of reading can never be taken for granted. It is an act of understanding that can never be observed, nor in any way prescribed or verified.

The old saying that "reason makes people think and emotion makes people act" isn't quite right for geeks. It would be more accurate to say that reason makes us think and emotion makes us suspicious.

There was always something sly about any act of education. Eve had learned that in the garden.

And now none of it could be undone. That was the exquisite irony: the act that had undone everything could not itself be undone.

The world is what it is.

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.