Quotes About Deeds

May our light shine in this world so that people see you in our sacrificial deeds of love and our compromising words of truth and give glory to your hallowed name, Father

What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do

I listen only to heroes. You spoke of great deeds when you sang your song. Speak of them now, to leave me forever. Sing to me of your adventures.

Deeds, not words shall speak to me.

The character is revealed, not by occasional good deeds and occasional misdeeds, but by the tendency of the habitual words and acts.

Christian documents praised missionaries for their sincere preaching of the Gospel, their piety, learning, good sense in daily life, chastity and good deeds. That they lived according to their teaching impressed the pagans. On a purely practical level, they often bought boy slaves in order to bring them up in the Christian way of life, and acquire acolytes. As Christianity is an exclusive religion, it was considered important to destroy pagan sanctuaries.

If by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live" (Romans 8:13, emphasis added). It is the Spirit who empowers you to put to death both your sinful desires and sinful deeds. You know that you can't do it on your own.

Love/Kindness is better proven than spoken i.e. you should always prove that you are loveful or kind by showing love and kindness to everyone rather than by merely saying it over and over again. ~Emeasoba George

Honest people don't hide their deeds.

History makes haste to record great deeds, but often neglects good ones.

A man really determines himself by what he does.

A politician and a government should be judged by one way only: on the record of what you do or did, not on what you say.

I don't know if there is redemption for people like Charlie Rose or Garrison Keillor. An apology helps, but what really matter are deeds.

My actions speak harder than words.

According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

but natural to expect that the deeds of the great messenger should be just the works of the Father done in little. If he came to reveal his Father in miniature, as it were (for in these unspeakable things we can but use figures, and the homeliest may be the holiest), to tone down his great voice, which, too loud for men to hear it aright, could but sound to them as an inarticulate thundering, into such a still small voice as might enter their human ears in welcome human speech

Onze daden kunnen slechts zo verstandig zijn als onze gedachten.

Kind little words, which are of the same blood as great and holy deeds," flowed from his lips constantly.

A man is known by his works. That I have heard at many a funeral.

One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.

I've learned enough times in life that saying something is completely different than acting upon it.

Title deeds establish and protect ownership of our houses, while security of property is as important to the proprietors of Tesco and Sainsbury's as it is to their customers.

it's not the thought that counts. In this world, it's the action that counts.