Good Deeds Quotes - Page 12

• We pass through this world but once.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Kindness, Helping Others, Giving

  Stephen Jay Gould (2006). “The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)”, p.30, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Like Muslims we assume that God will judge us "on balance." If our good deeds outweigh our bad deeds, we will arrive safely in heaven. But, alas, if our evil deeds outweigh our good ones, we will suffer the wrath of God in hell. We may be "marred" by sin but in no wise devastated by it. We still have the ability to balance our sins with our own righteousness. This is the most monstrous lie of all.

  R. C. Sproul

  Wise, Lying, Wrath

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• Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads Let love through good deeds show.

  Edwin Arnold

  Charity, Deeds, Crystals

  Edwin Arnold (2015). “Collected Works of Edwin Arnold: Buddhism and Hinduism Studies, Poetry & Plays (Unabridged): The Essence of Buddhism, Light of the World, The Light of Asia, The Song Celestial, Indian Poetry, Hindu Literature, The Japanese Wife, Death--And Afterwards…”, p.352, e-artnow

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• A good deed is a good deed.

  John Lee Hancock

  Deeds

  "Interview: 'The Blind Side' Director John Lee Hancock". Interview with Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. March 19, 2010.

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• A candle throws its light into the darkness, in a nasty world so shines a good deed. Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.

  Ben Harper

  Philosophy, Light, Shining

  Song: Diamonds On The Inside

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• Our hearts are the shrine; that is where God should be installed. Our good thoughts are the flowers to worship Him. Good deeds form the worship, good words form the hymns and love forms the offering.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Flower, Heart, Offering

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• Nothing can come of nothing; he who has laid up no materials can produce no combinations.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Deeds, Made, Produce

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• But the good deed, through the ages Living in historic pages, Brighter grows and gleams immortal, Unconsumed by moth or rust.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Age, Rust, Deeds

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems”, p.102

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• Nicias, do you think you can erase with good deeds the wrongs you committed against your mother? What good deed will ever reach her? Her soul is a scorching noon time, without a single breath of a breeze, nothing moves, nothing changes, nothing lives there; a great emaciated sun, an immobile sun eternally consumes her.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Mother, Moving, Thinking

  "The Flies". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 2, 1943.

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• Don't settle for helping those who will help you in return or doing a good deed for others to see. Help others without expecting anything back. Even if nobody else cares, God will notice.

  Dillon Burroughs

  Helping Others, Care, Deeds

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• The church is never a place to show off. Do your good deeds quietly. Serve; don't seek to be seen

  Max Lucado

  Church, Deeds, Shows

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the seed at Athens, 2,460 years ago, until the ripened harvest was gathered by men of our race. It is the delicate fruit of a mature civilization; and scarcely a century has passed since nations, that knew the meaning of the term, resolved to be free. In every age its progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man's craving for power, and the poor man's craving for food.

  Lord Acton

  Strong, Ignorance, Men

  "The History of Freedom in Antiquity". Lord Acton's opening statement of his speech on February 28, 1877; later quoted in "The History of Freedom and Other Essays" edited by John Neville Figgis and Reginald Vere Laurence, 1907.

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• In a society where dirt sells, for every good story told as it is, you will hear the whole of that day's 10 bad stories sensationalized; although in reality, it could be that 100 good deeds happened that day which went unsung.

  Criss Jami

  Reality, Dirt, Stories

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.42, Criss Jami

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• After you have made a decision that is pleasing to God, the Devil may try to make you have second thoughts. Intensify your prayer time, meditation, and good deeds. For if Satan's temptations merely cause you to increase your efforts to grow in holiness, he'll have an incentive to leave you alone.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Prayer, Meditation, Decision

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• A good deed hidden in silence dies.

  Pindar

  Silence, Deeds, Dies

  "The Odes and Selected Fragments" by Pindar. Fragment 121; p. 387, 1997.

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• If for every well-intended prayer uttered in hopes of making the world a better place, there was instead a good deed accomplished, the world might look as though those prayers had been answered.

  David G. McAfee

  Prayer, Looks, World

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• Do not say that faith in Christ alone can save you, for this is not possible if you do not attain love for Him, which is demonstrated by deeds. As for mere faith: "The demons also believe and tremble" (James, 2:19). The action of love consists in heartfelt good deeds toward one's neighbor, magnanimity, patience, and sober use of things.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Hope shouldn’t increase with good deeds and decrease with sin. In good deeds, my hope is for Allah to accept. In sin, my hope is for Allah to forgive.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Forgiving, Deeds, Sin

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• There are two angels that attend unseen
  Each one of us, and in great books record
  Our good and evil deeds. He who writes down
  The good ones, after every action closes
  His volume, and ascends with it to God.
  The other keeps his dreadful day-book open
  Till sunset, that we may repent; which doing,
  The record of the action fades away,
  And leaves a line of white across the page.
  Now if my act be good, as I believe it,
  It cannot be recalled. It is already
  Sealed up in heaven, as a good deed accomplished.
  The rest is yours.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Book, Believe, Sunset

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1856). “Poetical Works by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Illustrated with Upwards of One Hundred and Sixty Engravings on Wood, from Designs by Jane E. Benham, Birket Foster, Etc”, p.388

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• Sometimes I lifted a chicken that warn't roosting comfortable, and took him along. Pap always said, take a chicken when you get achance, because if you don't want him yourself you can easy find somebody that does, and a good deed ain't ever forgot. I never see papa when he didn't want the chicken himself, but that is what he used to say, anyway.

  Mark Twain

  Hypocrisy, Papa, Doe

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.433, GENERAL PRESS

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• Remember that sign they hung up in an EPA office during the Reagan administration, "No good deed goes unpunished"? Under George Bush, no good science goes unpunished.

  David Helvarg

  Office, Deeds, Epa

  Grist magazine, January 03, 2005.

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• Sin corrupts even our good deeds. We injure our shoulder trying to pat ourselves on the back.

  D. A. Carson

  Trying, Deeds, Sin

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• Count that day lost whose descending sun finds you with no good deeds done.

  Napoleon Hill

  Deeds Done, Sun, Lost

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.54, Penguin

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• He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled. He who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mean, Doe, Deeds

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.77, Penguin

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• I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Darkness, Three, Deeds

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