Deeds Quotes - Page 27

• Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted.

  Brennan Manning

  Greatness, Soul, Growth

  Brennan Manning (2015). “Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”, p.87, NavPress

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• Time itself is created through deeds of true kindness.

  Dara Horn

  Kindness

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• Cultivating the habit of good deeds will not only affect those around us, it will improve our own emotional well being.

  Debbie Macomber

  Kindness, Emotional, Generosity

  Debbie Macomber (2009). “One Simple Act: Discovering the Power of Generosity”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now.

  Epictetus

  Giving, Challenges, Quitting

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• Such is of the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Moving, Eye, Small Hands

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.246, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Friend is a very small word, A little sound we make, For one who is true, one who will do, Great deeds for friendship's sake.

  Brian Jacques

  Sake, Sound, Littles

  Brian Jacques (2004). “The Bellmaker: A Tale from Redwall”, p.109, Penguin

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• Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power...Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Art, Remember, Absurdity

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1983). “I Asked for Wonder: A Spiritual Anthology”, Crossroad Publishing Company

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• Hot blood begets hot thoughts, And hot thoughts beget Hot deeds, And hot deeds is love.

  William Shakespeare

  Blood, Hot, Begets

  William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.589

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• Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Noble, Chaos, Wartime

  Scott Westerfeld, Keith Thompson (2009). “Leviathan”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage. Unless we can make the philosophic foundations of a free society once more a living intellectual issue, and its implementation a task which challenges the ingenuity and imagination of our liveliest minds, the prospects of freedom are indeed dark. But if we can regain that belief in the power of ideas which was the mark of liberalism at its best, the battle is not lost.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Adventure, Dark, Issues

  "Hayek on a Society Based on Freedom" by Scott Horton, harpers.org. August 08, 2007.

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• Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Friendship, Errors

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• If we look on idly, heaven and earth will never be joined. To join heaven and earth, some decisive deed of purity is necessary. To accomplish so resolute an action, you have to stake your life, giving no thought to personal gain or loss.

  Yukio Mishima

  Loss, Dark, Clouds

  "Runaway Horses".

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• If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul.

  William Shakespeare

  Soul, Repent, Ifs

  'Titus Andronicus' (1590) act 5, sc. 3, l. [189]

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• Christ did not die to make good works merely possible or to produce a half-hearted pursuit. He died to produce in us a passion for good deeds. Christian purity is not the mere avoidance of evil, but the pursuit of good.

  John Piper

  Christian, Passion, Evil

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• Think about it: what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Thinking, Men, Self

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Fire from Within”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were measured by their deeds, on the one hand, I had a woman who had chosen to give me up; on the other, I had a woman who'd sat up with me at night when I was sick as a child, who'd cried with me over boyfriends, who'd clapped fiercely at my law school graduation. Which acts made you more of a mother? Both, I realized. Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Children, School

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

  John Milton

  Life, Patience, Integrity

  John Milton, Charles Symmons (1806). “The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author”, p.209

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• Love ye all religions and all races with a love that is true and sincere and show that love through deeds.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Race, Baha, Sincere

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• Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.

  Terry Pratchett

  Long Ago, Pirate, Dying

  "The Colour of Magic". Book by ‎Terry Pratchett, 1983.

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• The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert. Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last. Even the sun goes down.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Moon, Men, Desert

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• What was up with class today? It was watered-down porn. He practically had you and Patch on top of your lab table, horizontal, minus your clothes, doing the Big Deed.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Class, Clothes, Tables

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him. Not a figment of his soul but something that appears to the soul and demands the soul's creative power. What is required is a deed that a man does with his whole being.

  Martin Buber

  Art, Men, Creative

  Martin Buber (2013). “I and Thou”, p.78, eBookIt.com

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• The Word of God will be to you a bulwark and a high tower, a castle of defense against the foe. Oh, see to it that the Word of God is in you, in your very soul, permeating your thoughts, and so operating upon your outward life, that all may know you to be a true Bible-Christian, for they perceive it in your words and deeds.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Soul, Castles

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 29: Sermons 1698-1756”, p.283, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Fear, Rain, Believe

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.152, Pan Macmillan

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• There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people. In the best of us there are thoughts or deeds that are wicked, and in the worst of us, at least some virtue. An adversary is not one who does loathsome acts for their own sake. He always has a reason that to him is justification. My cat eats mice. Does that make him bad? I don't think so, and the cat doesn't think so, but I would bet the mice have a different opinion.

  Terry Goodkind

  Cat, Thinking, People

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Wizard's First Rule”, p.97, Head of Zeus

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