The true worth of a soul is revealed as much by the motive it attributes to the actions of others as by its own deeds.
Boasts are wind and deeds are hard.
In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.
And now the matchless deed's achieved, Determined, Dared, and Done.
Lofty words cannot construct an alliance or maintain it; only concrete deeds can do that.
This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time; the light on the stars requires time; deeds though done, still require time to be seen and heard. This deed is still more distant from them than the most distant stars - and yet they have done it themselves.
No stops are ever inserted in Acts of Parliament, or in deeds; but the Courts of law, in construing them, must read them with such stops as will give effect to the whole.
Silence is full of the unspoken, of deeds undone, of confessions to secret love, and of wonders not expressed. Our truth is hidden in our silence, Yours and I.
According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind.
O world, world when I was younger I thought there was some order governing you and your deeds. But now you seem to be a labyrinth of errors, a frightful desert, a den of wild beasts, a game in which men move in circles…a stony field, a meadow full of serpents, a flowering but barren orchard, a spring of cares, a river of tears, a sea of suffering, a vain hope.
I perceive a necessary gap between seeing and being. I would not be able to have said certain things if I had been under the obligation to unify the word and the deed. As it is I can let my words reach out and net impossible things - things that are impossible for me to do. And this is a way to pay the price for saying or seeing things.
I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.
I am much more afraid of my good deeds that please me than of my bad deeds that repel me.
Such is life, here today, gone tomorrow! Nothing goes with one, except one's merit and demerit; good and evil deeds follow one even after death.
It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.
There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the foul deed which she plotted when she contrived her husband's murder.
All pity choked with custom of fell deeds.
At the moment of death we will not be judged according to the number of good deeds we have done or by the diplomas we have received in our lifetime. We will be judged according to the love we have put into our work.
Help me, O Lord, that my hands may be merciful and filled with good deeds, so that I may do only good to my neighbors.
We are not saved by good deeds; we are saved for good deeds. Jesus transforms us to transform others.