Deeds Quotes - Page 40

• Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Buddhist, Men

  Gautama Buddha (2013). “The Dhammapada”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• As a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of evil; as a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of good.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Evil, Water

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• A fool thinks it like honey so long as the bad deed does not bear fruit, but when it does bear fruit he experiences suffering.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Thinking, Long

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• Like fresh milk a bad deed does not turn at once. It follows a fool scorching him like a smouldering fire.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Fire, Doe

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• Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.

  Sophocles

  Justice, Diversity, Ugly

  David Grene, Sophocles (1959). “Sophocles”, [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press

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• Sin is present in everyone as a nature before it expresses itself in deeds

  Henry Clarence Thiessen

  Sin

  Henry Clarence Thiessen (1979). “Lectures in Systematic Theology”, p.173, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.

  Teresa of Avila

  Hands, Saint, May

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• The judgment: You are now before Yama, King of the Dead. In vain will you try to...deny or conceal the evil deeds you have done. ... the mirror in which Yama seems to read your past is your own memory, and also his judgment is your own. It is you yourself who pronounce your own judgment.

  Gautama Buddha

  Kings, Memories, Book

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• On the Day of Judgment, the servant of Allah will be given his book of deeds, where he finds rewards for things he did not do, so he asks: O My Lord, where did I get these deeds?
  So Allah replies to him saying: These are because of the people who backbited you and you did not know about it.

  Abu Umamah al Bahili

  Book, Islamic, People

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• The first thing which will be judged among a man's deeds on the Day of Resurrection is the Prayer. If this is in good order then he will succeed and prosper but if it is defective then he will fail and will be a loser.

  Muhammad

  Prayer, Islamic, Men

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• Do not think little of any good deed, even if it is just greeting your brother with a smile.

  Muhammad

  Brother, Thinking, Humanity

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• Doing the good deeds is like the grass in the garden. You don't see its growth. But, it does by days. Doing the wicked deeds is like the hone. You don't see its damage. But, it does by days.

  Gautama Buddha

  Kindness, Garden, Growth

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• Do good deeds properly, sincerely and moderately and know that your deeds will not make you enter Paradise, and that the most beloved deed to Allah's is the most regular and constant even though it were little.

  Muhammad

  Positive, God, Islamic

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• Your good thoughts, good words and good deeds alone will be your intercessors. Nothing more will be wanted. They alone will serve you as a safe pilot to the harbour of Heaven, as a safe guide to the gates of paradise.

  Zoroaster

  Spiritual, Heaven, Paradise

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• Had there not been five bad qualities, all the people would have been righteous. Contentment with ignorance; love for worldly life; miserliness inspite of much wealth; ostentation in (good) deeds; and pride in their own intelligence.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wisdom, Islamic, Ignorance

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• If He opens a door for you, thereby making Himself known, pay no heed if your do not measure up to this. For, in truth, He has not opened if for you but out of a desire to make Himself known to you. Do you not know that He is the one who presented the knowledge of Himself to you, whereas you are the one who presented Him with deeds? What a difference between what He brings to you and what you present to Him!

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Wisdom, Islamic, Doors

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• To attempt to pay for salvation with church membership, prayers, or good deeds is an insult to Christ, who paid the full price-and is a rejection of the gift of God's grace.

  Dave Hunt

  Prayer, Rejection, Grace

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• One good deed is worth a thousand prayers.

  Zoroaster

  Prayer, Science, Religion

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• Mutual respect and mutual listening are the foundations of harmony within the family.

  Gautama Buddha

  Listening, Foundation, Harmony

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• One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy.

  Gautama Buddha

  Doe, Birth, Holy

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• What makes a man a man are his deeds, his responsibilities, and his reactions... These things are also what makes a man a monster.

  Shannon Delany

  Responsibility, Men, Monsters

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• A church must be more deeply and practically committed to deeds of compassion and social justice than traditional liberal churches and more deeply and practically committed to evangelism and conversion than traditional fundamentalist churches. This kind of church is profoundly counter-intuitive to American observers. It breaks their ability to categorize (and dismiss) it as liberal or conservative. Only this kind of church has any chance in the non-Christian west.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Compassion, Justice

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• I slew him-this right hand struck the dagger to his heart. My deeds slew Christ. Alas! I slew my best beloved; I killed him who loved me with an everlasting love. Oh eyes, why do you refuse to weep when you see Jesus' body mangled and torn? Give vent to your sorrow, Christians, for you have good reason to do so.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Friday, Jesus

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2012). “The Spurgeon Series 1855 & 1856: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language”, p.279, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• My heart was filled with gratitude, with thankfulness, and went out in love to all the heroes, the thinkers who gave their lives for the liberty of hand and brain... to all the wise, the good, the brave of every land, whose thoughts and deeds have given freedom to the sons of men. And then I vowed to grasp the torch that they had held, and hold it high, that light might conquer darkness still.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Wise, Gratitude, Hero

  "The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Lectures".

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• The song that nerves a nation's heart is in itself a deed.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Music, Song, Heart

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1404, Delphi Classics

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