Doing Good Quotes - Page 12

• Alas! how many souls there are full of self, and yet desirous of doing good and serving God, but in such a way as to suit themselves; who desire to impose rules upon God as to His manner of drawing them to Himself. They want to serve and possess Him, but they are not willing to be possessed by Him.

  Francois Fenelon

  Self, Drawing, Soul

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• I had to work harder. I couldn't do the social thing, and play the game the others were playing. I had to work that much harder and handle the 'evils' by doing good work.

  Charles Walters

  Hard Work, Play, Games

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• Listen, after almost twenty years of call-in radio, I can tell you that the main thrust of too many lives is an overemphasis on feeling good instead of doing good. Being admired and respected by the self and others has taken a back seat to feeling good, or, at least, avoiding feeling bad. And, oh boy, the excuses some of you can come up with for doing so!

  Laura Schlessinger

  Taken, Boys, Self

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• Do not go out of your way to do good whenever it comes your way. Men who make a business of doing good to others are apt to hate others in the same occupation. Simply be filled with the thought of good, and it will radiate you do not have to bother about it, any more than you need trouble about your digestion.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Hate, Men, Needs

  Elbert Hubbard (1904). “This Then is Consecrated Lives: Being Essays”

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• Whoever would entitle himself after death through the merits of his Redeemer, to the noblest of rewards, let him serve God throughout life in this most excellent of all duties, doing good to our brethren. Whoever is sensible of his offences, let him take this way especially of evidencing his repentance.

  Thomas Secker

  Charity, Rewards, Way

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• Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that same sense of public service. They are simply pirates. Yes, there are fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, who appear to be in charge of the White House at the moment, but they are very different from the Christian gentlemen who ran the British Empire and believed they were doing good works around the world. These days it's about naked power.

  John Pilger

  Christian, Believe, White

  Source: progressive.org

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• You have to free yourself from your mental conditioning through association with the holy, through doing good works, through meditating, through laughter, through love and through solitude.

  Frederick Lenz

  Laughter, Solitude, Association

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• In its sentimental mode, compassion is an exercise in moral indignation, in feeling good rather than doing good ... In its unsentimental mode, compassion seeks above all to do good.

  Gertrude Himmelfarb

  Exercise, Compassion, Feel Good

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• When I first auditioned for Dexter... Well, I was sent the script, and I read it and loved it, and I knew right away that it was going to be a hit because it's the type of programming that I like to watch. It's that very morally ambiguous thing where you find yourself rooting for someone who's really an awful person, but... is he doing good? You're constantly calling into question your own moral code. I love that as an audience member.

  Julie Benz

  Finding Yourself, Calling, Awful

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If [Donald Trump] wants to do good things, let's see it. Let him do it. I can't stop him from doing good things.

  Maxine Waters

  Want, Good Things, Trump

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I am enjoying myself and I do not mind the loss of personal time and family time when I am doing good films.

  Deepika Padukone

  Loss, Mind, Film

  Source: www.indiawest.com

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• I believe in doing good for good's sake.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Believe, Sake, I Believe

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• There are some cities that are doing good stuff, but there aren't enough of them. If you don't fight for what you want, then you deserve what you get. And in politics, if you don't ask, you don't get at all.

  Van Jones

  Fighting, Cities, Want

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I personally feel that I should support people who are doing good work and people should also support such good work.

  Aamir Khan

  People, Support, Good Work

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• God bestows His blessings without discrimination. The followers of Jesus are children of God, and they should manifest the family likeness by doing good to all, even to those who deserve the opposite.

  F. F. Bruce

  Jesus, Children, Blessing

  Walter C. Kaiser, Jr., Peter H. Davids, F. F. Bruce, Manfred Brauch (2010). “Hard Sayings of the Bible”, p.366, InterVarsity Press

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• Believing right doctrine will no more save you, than doing good works will save you.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Believe, Doctrine, Good Work

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• As Charles Lamb says, there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident, so I now say it is even nicer to make heroic decisions and to be prevented by 'circumstances beyond your control' from ever trying to execute them.

  William James

  Nice, Decision, Trying

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• Doing good holds the power to transform us on the inside, and then ripple out in ever-expanding circles that positively impact the world at large.

  Shari Arison

  Impact, Circles, World

  "Activate Your Goodness" by Shari Arison, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2013.

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• We are not justified by doing good works, but being justified we then do good.

  William Jenkyn

  Justified, Good Work

  William Jenkyn, James Sherman (1839). “An Exposition Upon the Epistle of Jude: Delivered in Christ-Church, London”, p.224

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• William Wilberforce...w as a great man who impacted the Western world as few others have done. Blessed with brains, charm, influence and initiative, much wealth ... he put evangelism on Britain's map as a power for social change, first by overthrowing the slave trade almost single-handed and then by generating a stream of societies for doing good and reducing evil in public life... To forget such men is foolish.

  J. I. Packer

  Blessed, Men, Evil

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• Gluttony should be destroyed by self-control; unchastity by desire for God and longing for the blessings held in store; avarice by compassion for the poor; anger by goodwill and love for all men; worldly dejection by spiritual joy; listlessness by patience, perseverance and offering thanks to God; self-esteem by doing good in secret and by praying constantly with a contrite heart; and pride by not judging or despising anyone in the manner of the boastful Pharisee (cf. Lk. 18:11-12), and by considering oneself the least of all men.

  John of Damascus

  Christian, Spiritual, Perseverance

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• How wonderful it is that we can start doing good at this very moment.

  Anne Frank

  Wonderful, Moments

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• The most acceptable service of God is doing good to man.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Acceptable

  Benjamin Franklin (2010). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Penn Reading Project Edition”, p.155, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• He tried the luxury of doing good.

  George Crabbe

  Luxury

  'Tales of the Hall' (1819) 'Boys at School' l. 139

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• If you focus more on the inside, you'll feel just as great about the outside. I feel attractive when I'm doing good and helping people.

  Keke Palmer

  Feels Just, People, Focus

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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