Good Deeds Quotes - Page 13

• A wife and a husband should be regarded as friends for the sake of Allaah. And that friendship is above material needs; each encouraging the other one to do good deeds, which are pleasing to Allaah.

  Bilal Philips

  Husband, Wife, Needs

  FaceBook post by Dr. Bilal Philips from Dec 28, 2013

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• Good deeds are no less good because their object is unworthy.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Deeds, Morality, Objects

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.137, Jazzybee Verlag

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• What good deed can government do for religion? The best deed of all: leave it free and unencumbered, burdened by neither enmity nor amity.

  Edwin Gaustad

  Government, Atheism, Enmity

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• If you set out to do a good deed, you may do a hundred small kindnesses on the way.

  Sarah Doudney

  Kindness, Deeds, May

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• We are not to preach the doing of good things; good deeds are not to be preached, they are to be performed.

  Oswald Chambers

  Deeds, Good Things

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.24, Discovery House

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• Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good...it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as to draw him away entirely from good deeds.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Men, Evil, Sloth

  Saint Thomas Aquinas, Catholic Way Publishing (2014). “The Summa Theologica: Complete Edition”, p.5673, Catholic Way Publishing

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• A personal relationship with God enhances life. First, it enables us to accept our limitations without being frustrated by them. It assures us that problems we can't solve are not necessarily insoluble. Second, when we need it, God offers us a sense of forgiveness, a sense of cleansing from our incompleteness. . . . Last and perhaps most important, a personal relationship with God redeems us from the fear of death. We needn't be afraid that all our good deeds will vanish when we die.

  Harold S. Kushner

  God, Frustrated, Important

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• Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source of good deeds, whether it's people from different spiritual backgrounds coming together to help other people in need after a crisis. But it's also a cause for war and bloodshed.

  Josh Gad

  Spiritual, War, Helping Others

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• Avoid jealously for this destroys good deeds as fire destroys wood.

  Abu Hurairah

  Fire, Deeds, Woods

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• Memory of our good works makes us negligent and leads to arrogance. Do not think of your good deeds, so that God may remember them.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Memories, Thinking, Arrogance

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• When we love somebody, we show it by doing something nice. So learn to serve: find a need and fulfill a need. Surprise people with a good deed they hadn't planned on. We have that opportunity at home, at school, and at church.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Nice, Home, School

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• We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.

  Cesare Pavese

  Thinking, Deeds, Good Thoughts

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.113, Transaction Publishers

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• ... only the good deed done for Christ's sake brings us the fruits of the Holy Spirit. All that is not done for Christ's sake, even though it be good, brings neither reward in the future life nor the grace of God in this life. That is why our Lord Jesus Christ said: 'He who gathers not with Me scatters' (Lk. 11:23).

  Seraphim of Sarov

  Christian, Jesus, Deeds Done

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• Be vigilant! Be vigilant! If an evil is minor, resist it nonetheless. If a good deed is trifling, perform it all the same. Only wisdom and virtue can truly win men's devotion.

  Liu Bei

  Winning, Men, Evil

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• We live by faith; but Faith is not the slave Of text and legend. Reason's voice and God's, Nature's and Duty's, never are at odds. What asks our Father of His children, save Justice and mercy and humility, A reasonable service of good deeds, Pure living, tenderness to human needs, Reverence and trust, and prayer for light to see The Master's footprints in our daily ways? No knotted scourge nor sacrificial knife, But the calm beauty of an ordered life Whose very breathing is unworded praise! - A life that stands as all true lives have stood Firm-rooted in the faith that God is Good.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Life, Prayer, Children

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Religious Poems, Part 2., from Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems Volume II., the Works of Whittier”, p.90, tredition

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• When one begins to purposefully perform acts of kindness, the spirit changes and soon doing good deeds becomes a focal point for our life; doing good begins to be the same as feeling good. The periods of emptiness when we search for the "meaning of it all" begin to fill with acts of kindness.

  Gary Blair

  Life, Kindness, Feel Good

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• Everytime you do a Good Deed with true intention, your soul grows purer.

  Soman Chainani

  Soul, Deeds, Intention

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• Nice things are done for our own sake, not for the sake of others. The pleasure must reside in the performance, not in the applause. Good deeds are, in a deeper psychological way, a favor to oneself. If this is not grasped, then our whole sense of personal relationships becomes warped.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Nice, Done, Deeds

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• Sincerity causes the smallest of good deeds to become the largest.

  Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

  Deeds, Causes, Sincerity

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• Just as a very little fresh water is blown away by a storm of wind and dust, in like manner the good deeds, that we think we do in this life, are overwhelmed by the multitude of evils.

  Saint Basil

  Life, Thinking, Dust

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• A good painting should be the equivalent of a good deed.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Deeds, Painting, Should

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• If Shaytan(Demon) defeated me yesterday, I will defeat him today with repentance and good deeds

  Sufyan al-Thawri

  Yesterday, Deeds, Today

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• The most excellent of those who perform good deeds are those who most often remember God in all situations.

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Deeds, Remember, Excellent

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• The good will of the governed will be starved if not fed by the good deeds of the governors.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, Deeds, Feds

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.13, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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