A Christian has no need of any law in order to be saved, since through faith we are free from every law. Thus all the acts of a Christian are done spontaneously, out of a sense of pure liberty.
Clergymen almost necessarily fail in two ways as teachers of morals. They condemn acts which do no harm and they condone acts which do great harm.
Talk and write in a way that encourages the mutual exchange of ideas and acts like a midwife to people birthing their own ideas.
I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to understand them.
The warrior acts, the fool reacts.
Immediate are the acts of God, more swift than time or motion.
But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.
Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
We judge our own character by our best intentions and most noble acts, but we will be judged by our last worst act.
Courage has you say in a defiant spirit you can take everything from me, you could cut me deep, you could render me in shame but you will never ever stop me from loving those who mock me, from loving those that hate me, from loving those who don't forgive me, from loving the cynics, from loving the darkness so much that I myself through my small acts of consistent unyielding love may bring on the light.
Our acts our angels are, for good or ill, our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Our compassion and acts of selflessness take us to the deeper truths.
Market values are fixed only in part by balance sheets and income statements; much more by the hopes and fears of humanity; by greed, ambition, acts of God, invention, financial stress and strain, weather, discovery, fashion and numberless other causes impossible to be listed without omission.
Moreover, the whole purpose of God's mighty acts is to bring man to know Him by faith; and Scripture knows no foundation for faith but the spoken word of God, inviting our trust in Him on the basis of what He has done for us.
Those who preached faith, or in other words a pure mind, have always produced more popular virtue than those who preached good acts, or the mere regulation of outward works.
A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow.
After the Donald Trump's election, there was a surge of hate crimes. We saw acts of vandalism, certainly a lot of slander on social media and, in fact, in the last few months, as you mentioned, a number of bomb threats, almost 70, to dozens of Jewish community centers across the country.
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
I contend that non-violent acts exert pressure far more effective than violent acts, for the pressure comes from goodwill and gentleness.