Quotes About Act

The faith which makes the courage of despair possible is the acceptance of the power of being, even in the grip of non-being. Even in the despair about meaning being affirms itself through us. The act of accepting meaninglessness is in itself a meaningful act. It is an act of faith.

Her behavior was obviously retaliatory. That's what terrible, sordid situations did to you, made you act crazily, against your own truths, against your self.

For although to give with grace Is the noblest act 'mongst men, To take back the gift again Is the basest of the base.

I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all is for an act of theatre to be engaged.

You came back here that day with a word written on your forehead that I could read: 'Succeed! Succeed at any price.' " To which Vautrin responds: "Bravo! That's the kind of fellow I like." (SC 111/P 3:139) To revolt is to take destiny into your own hands by a decisive act.

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship...the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

God's act of salvation in Exodus hearkens back to God's act of creation in Genesis, when God separated the waters on the second and third days of creation. Saving Israel is a divine act of "re-creation.

The New Testament story is, in other words, one big act of wisdom—a response to God's surprising presence here and now.

God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?

Then let the young woman who pleases the king become queen in place of Vashti.” This suggestion pleased the king, and he acted accordingly.

“Go up and down the streets of Jerusalem. Look now and take note; search her squares. If you can find a single person, anyone who acts justly, anyone who seeks the truth, then I will forgive the city.

Although our iniquities testify against us, O LORD, act for the sake of Your name. Indeed, our rebellions are many; we have sinned against You.