Quotes About Actions

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results. — Milton Friedman

Ignorance or impotence may be pleaded for so limited a creature as man; but those imperfections have no place in our Creator. He foresaw, he ordained, he intended all those actions of men, which we so rashly pronounce criminal. And we must therefore conclude, either that they are not criminal, or that the Deity, not man, is accountable for them.

What those courageous actions during the war were he did not say.

All our words and actions pass in review before God.

If people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number of Christians would go to Heaven.

If God cared only about religious activities, then the Pharisees would have been heroes of the faith.

All virtuous women, like tortoises, carry their house on their heads, and their chappel in their heart, and their danger in their eye, and their souls in their hands, and God in all their actions.

Actions don't only speak louder than words; actions should be used to interpret words.

God should be the object of all our desires, the end of all our actions, the principle of all our affections, and the governing power of our whole souls.

Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God.

We can be encouraged knowing that our daily actions and words are declaring Christ to the world.

Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices.

The Bhagavad-Gita has a profound influence on the spirit of mankind by its devotion to God which is manifested by actions.

Only what God has commanded in His word should be regarded as binding; in all else there may be liberty of actions.

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

I believe in one God, Creator of the Universe in that He ought to be whipped from pilar to post and back again for His shameful actions toward Humanity.

God hath varied the inclinations of men according to the variety of actions to be performed.

Conscience is merely our own judgment of the right or wrong of our actions, and so can never be a safe guide unless enlightened by the word of God.

(Those who) impute such actions to God, as make Him resemble the worst of beings, and so run into downright Demonism.

WikiLeaks, God bless them, will save lives as a result of their actions.

Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none; their vows and promises are no more than words, of course.

There are always consequences to wrong choices.

Do we always do the things that God would take pleasure, or that we do things we think God would take pleasure.

Children, like God, see only our actions.