There is a price to pay for most of our actions. For every action, there is a reaction.
Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so.
When we cast our bread upon the waters we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from the grantor's gift.
. . . the only thing that continues is the consequences of our action.
Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
Beyond all our actions stands the larger shadow: How are we to choose between what we have been taught to think right and something else which manifestly succeeds?
Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.
As human beings, we are always torn between individual freedom and the ability of choose our actions, and the need for at least enough social structure so that anarchy, chaos, and warlordery - or the war of all against all - can be avoided.
It is not enough to say we are Christians. We must live the faith, not only with our words, but with our actions.
The notion of auspiciousness is something positive, something with forward momentum, coming out of our actions.
We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.
At heart, we're all violent raging wolves, but in our actions we can be pacifists.
Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.
We make every effort to see that our actions live up to our words and be vigilant with regards to our behavior.
By our actions we tell Him of our love.
When we don’t put the brakes on our self-absorption, we have nothing stopping us from total self-destruction. We become the fruits of our actions.
Our lives are given meaning by our actions-accomplishments made while we are "here" that extend beyond our own time.
Conscience is merely our own judgment of the right or wrong of our actions, and so can never be a safe guide unless enlightened by the word of God.
Our actions- and inaction- touch people every day, people we may never know and never meet.