You will probably have but a short time to live. Before you launch into eternity, it behooves you to improve the time that may be allowed you in this world: it behooves you most seriously to reflect upon your past conduct; to repent of your evil deeds, to be incessant in prayers to the great and merciful God to forgive your manifold transgressions and sins, to teach you to rely upon the merit and passion of a dear Redeemer.
Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed.
No action is ever an isolated event. Always, it invites from the universe a reaction that corresponds exactly to the type and the force of energy behind the deed.
If we commit any crime, or do any good here, it must be in thought; for our words are few and our deeds none at all.
Do not resist the evil-doer and take no part in doing so, either in the violent deeds of the administration, in the law courts, the collection of taxes, or above all in soldiering, and no one in the world will be able to enslave you.
Do no evilness because it is a small one; do not leave a small deed undone because it is just a petty one.
Thought, word, and deed are the three levels of creation.
I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty.
The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
Pauline kept a scrapbook into which she pasted important articles that she had cut out of the newspapers. These were about the courageous deeds that had been done by people even if they only had one leg or couldn't see or had been dropped on their heads when they were babies. 'It's to make me brave,' she'd explained to Annika.
Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
EVERY intention which does not assert itself by deeds is a vain intention, and the speech which expresses it is idle speech. It is action which proves life and establishes will
. . . it is better to study how to live rather than how to die;. . . it is better to have a religion of deeds rather than a religion of creeds;. . . it is better to work for humanity than for God.
Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after.
And when a beest is deed, he hath no peyne; But man after his deeth moot wepe and pleyne.
I am much less interested in what is called God's word than in God's deeds. All bibles are man-made.
People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.
There is a form of literature that is a deed, and a form that is only talk, and the latter passes away like a conversation.
Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.
The goodness of the heart is shown in deeds Of peacefulness and kindness. Hand and heart Are one thing with the good, as thou should'st be. Do my words trouble thee? then treasure them, Pain overgot gives peace, as death doth Heaven. All things that speak of Heaven speak of peace.