Quotes About Act

The most striking aspect of the "religious revival" of the 1950s, after all, had been the absence of devotion. Going to church then was more a social than a religious act. In the late sixties faith was expressed by not going to church.

the act does not create guilt unless the mind is also guilty.

There is an ancient rule: actus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea—"the act does not create guilt unless the mind is also guilty.

actus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea—"the act does not create guilt unless the mind is also guilty.

Corporate irony not only ridicules the thing it is selling but the very act of selling it. In the process it disarms critics by making anyone who goes against the flow of commerce seem clueless.

There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can. . . . Let fate, coincidence, and accident conspire; human beings must act on reason.

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.

Scepticism may be theoretically irrefutable, but even the sceptic must 'act … and live, and converse, like other men', since human nature gives him no choice.

Freedom is at root a natural, ultimately God-centered, personal act of love, even as love properly understood is a natural, ultimately God-centered, personal order of truth. Freedom and truth are therefore united in what is at once an act and an order of love.

Reading, after all, is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction, a matter of engagement in a society that seems to want nothing more that for us to disengage.

Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.

Friendship is an opportunity to act on God's behalf in the lives of the people that we're close to, reminding each other who God is.

To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.

There isn't a single motivation, thought, act, or word that has slipped out of your being and escaped the full, undivided attention of God.

In conclusion it may be said that sin may be defined as lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either in act, disposition, or state

Ministry to an individual is as mighty an act of God as is ministry to the masses.

If you can explain what is happening in a church, apart from the sovereign act of God, it is not revival.

There are two very important things you need to realize from this verse of Scripture. The first one is: Whatever we must receive from God must come as an act of faith, because God is a Faith-God.

And in Hollywood, you know, everyone is an expert. Most of them are expert editors. They can't direct, they can't write, they can't act, but, by God, they all think they can edit.

Sin is lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either in act, disposition, or state

God created two acts of folly. First, He created the Universe in a Big Bang. Second, He was negligent enough to leave behind evidence for this act, in the form of microwave radiation.

And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God.

Unbelief is judged by Jesus not as an intellectual error but as a hostile act of prejudice against God himself.

One of my opponents [Romney] recently said that it would take an act of God for me to win this primary. I agree with him.