It is not the project but the living process that will be the measure of our actions.
In all our actions, God considers the intention: whether we act for Him or for some other motive.
The distance we feel from our actions is proportionate to our ignorance of them; our ignorance, in turn, is largely a measure of the length of the chain of intermediaries between ourselves and our acts.
As individuals, we will be judged in our lives by the totality of our actions. Not one thing will stand out. And I think that's how we get judged by our colleagues and that's how we get judged by the good lord.
If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all.
When our actions create discord in another person, we, ourselves, in this lifetime or another, will feel that discord. Likewise, if our actions create harmony and empowerment in another, we also come to feel that harmony and empowerment.
Worship is our response to what we value most. As a result, worship fuels our actions, becoming the driving force of all we do.
There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.
As long as we abide in Christ, our action is from Him, not from our own corrupt and broken nature.
We may say we value this thing or that thing more than any other, but the volume of our actions speaks louder than our words.
The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions.
The Christian is free from all other human beings. He does not have to live over against others, controlled by their actions and responses. Rather, he lives according to Christ's commands. This is Christian freedom. It is a freedom unknown by others. It is not just when others do the things that we like that we act properly toward them; we are free to do good even when they don't because our actions are not dependent on their responses. It is the Lord Christ when we serve!
We should be as careful of our words as of our actions.
The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting this inquiry in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, else there would be no advantage in studying it. For that reason, it becomes necessary to examine the problem of our actions and to ask how they are to be performed. For as we have said, the actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.
We are going to learn more by what we see than by what we hear. Our actions speak so loudly that we don't have to say a word. . Words only account for about seven percent of our communication.
How do we define, how do we describe, how do we explain andor understand ourselves? What sort of creatures do we take ourselves to be? What are we? Who are we? Why are we? How do we come to be what or who we are or take ourselves to be? How do we give an account of ourselves? How do we account for ourselves, our actions, interactions, transactions (praxis), our biologic processes? Our specific human existence?
We are stuck with not knowing what our actions will actually lead to.
A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are imperfect.
The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.
Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.