Our Actions Quotes - Page 10

• They who pray with faith have fervour and fervour is the fire of prayer. This mysterious fire has the power of consuming all our faults and imperfections, and of giving to our actions, vitality, beauty and merit.

  Frances Xavier Cabrini

  Prayer, Fire, Giving

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• It is perverse that a nation so rich should neglect its children so shamefully. Our attitude toward them is cruelly ambivalent. Weare sentimental about children but in our actions do not value them. We say we love them but give them little honor.

  Richard Stolley

  Attitude, Children, Giving

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• In the nature of our existence, we must act to achieve values. And in order to act appropriately, we need to value the beneficiary of our actions. In order to seek values, we must consider ourselves worthy of enjoying them. In order to fight for our happiness, we must consider ourselves worthy of happiness.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Fighting, Order, Needs

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• We create in people through our actions and example. In this way people around us become reflections of our own behavioral patterns and internal energies.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Reflection, People, Energy

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• We may say we value this thing or that thing more than any other, but the volume of our actions speaks louder than our words.

  Louie Giglio

  Our Words, May, Speak

  Louie Giglio (2009). “Wired: Student Edition of The Air I Breathe”, p.13, Multnomah

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• It can be shown that maximum diversification is achieved by holding each stock in proportion to its value to the entire market (italics added)... Hindsight plays tricks on our minds... often distorts the past and encourages us to play hunches and outguess other investors, who in turn are playing the same game. For most of us, trying to beat the market leads to disastrous results... our actions lead to much lower returns than can be achieved by just staying in the market.

  Jeremy Siegel

  Past, Games, Play

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• We've been gifted with the power of choice...in our actions, our thoughts, and our words. The quality of our lives gets better or worse depending on which direction we go with our choices.

  Shawn Anderson

  Choices, Get Better, Quality

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• Some might say that looking inside of ourselves for spiritual truths is egocentric and selfish, and that egolessness and selflessness lie in working for others in the world. But until we find our inner truth, our work in the world will always revolve around our 'selves'. As long as we think about the world in terms of 'self' and 'others', our actions will be selfish. Our 'self' follows us wherever we go, so positive results will be limited.

  Tarthang Tulku

  Spiritual, Lying, Selfish

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• If we empower ourselves with responsibility over our actions, responsibility over our destinies and responsibility for directing and maintaining and creating our own ethical and moral frameworks, which is the most important thing really isn’t it because perhaps the greatest insult to humanism is this idea that mankind needs a god in order to have a moral framework.

  Stephen Fry

  Responsibility, Destiny, Order

  "The Importance of Unbelief". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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• ... we have broken down the self-respecting spirit of man with nursery tales and priestly threats, and we dare to assert, that inproportion as we have prostrated our understanding and degraded our nature, we have exhibited virtue, wisdom, and happiness, in our words, our actions, and our lives!

  Frances Wright

  Men, Self, Broken

  Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures as delivered by Frances Wright: with three addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789. Second edition”, p.115

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• To have the fear of God before our eyes, and, in our mutual dealings with each other, to govern our actions by the eternal measures of right and wrong:MThe first of these will comprehend the duties of religion;Mthe second, those of morality, which are so inseparably connected together, that you cannot divide these two tableswithout breaking and mutually destroying them both.

  Laurence Sterne

  Bible, Eye, Two

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• God's Word must be so strongly fixed in our minds that it becomes the dominant influence in our thoughts, our attitudes, and our actions. One of the most effective ways of influencing our minds is through memorizing Scripture. David said, "I have hidden Your Word in my heart that I might not sin against You" (Psm. 119:11).

  Jerry Bridges

  Attitude, Heart, Mind

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Pursuit of Holiness”, p.67, NavPress

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• Our actions are the evidence of our belief and become the substance of our faith.

  L. Whitney Clayton

  Substance, Belief, Evidence

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• the voluntary relinquishing of responsibility for our lives and our actions is one of the greatest enemies of our time.

  Genesis P-Orridge

  Responsibility, Enemy, Relinquishing

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• May our adversities make us strong. May our victories make us wise. May our actions make us proud.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Wise, Strong, Adversity

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• The distance we feel from our actions is proportionate to our ignorance of them; our ignorance, in turn, is largely a measure of the length of the chain of intermediaries between ourselves and our acts.

  John Lachs

  Distance, Ignorance, Length

  John Lachs (2014). “Freedom and Limits”, p.163, Oxford University Press

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• God inducts us into the eternal kind of life that flows through himself. He does this first by bringing that life to bear upon our needs, and then by diffusing it throughout our deeds - deeds done with expectation that he and his Father will act with and in our actions.

  Dallas Willard

  Father, Deeds Done, Expectations

  Dallas Willard (2009). “The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God”, p.52, Harper Collins

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• Once we know and are aware, we are responsible for our action and our inaction. We can do something about it or ignore it. Either way, we are still responsible.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Way, Responsible, Stills

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• Everybody is different and I think that we live in a material world. But for me, possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a grand environment to show myself and others that I have wealth has zero appeal. Whatever I own is temporary, since we're only here for a short period of time. It's what we do and produce, it's our actions, that will last forever. That's real value.

  Nicolas Berggruen

  Zero, Real, Thinking

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• Beyond all our actions stands the larger shadow: How are we to choose between what we have been taught to think right and something else which manifestly succeeds?

  Jacob Bronowski

  Thinking, Shadow, Succeed

  Jacob Bronowski (1978). “The Common Sense of Science”, p.120, Harvard University Press

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• We cannot escape from our daily routine, because it will go with us wherever we go.... God must be sought and found in the things of our world. By regarding our daily duties as something performed for the honour and glory of God, we can convert what was hitherto soul-killing monotony, to a living worship of God in all our actions. Everyday life must become itself our prayer.

  Karl Edward Wagner

  Prayer, Our World, Soul

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• Every person in the world is by nature a slave to sin.  The world, by nature, is held in sin's grip.  What a shock to our complacency- that everything of us by nature belongs to sin.  Our silences belong to sin, our omissions belong to sin, our talents belong to sin, our actions belong to sin.  Every facet of our personalities belong to sin; it own us and dominates us.  We are its servants.

  Joel Beeke

  Omission, Silence, Personality

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• I'm a Pisces, and Pisces have this weird inability to be completely spontaneous. We're too conscious of our actions. I've always been way too sensible for my own good.

  Billy Corgan

  Inability, Way, Pisces

  "Smashing Pumpkins: SPIN’s ‘Mellon Collie’ Cover Story, ‘Zero Worship’". Interview with Craig Marks, www.spin.com. October 23, 2015.

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• The Christian is free from all other human beings. He does not have to live over against others, controlled by their actions and responses. Rather, he lives according to Christ's commands. This is Christian freedom. It is a freedom unknown by others. It is not just when others do the things that we like that we act properly toward them; we are free to do good even when they don't because our actions are not dependent on their responses. It is the Lord Christ when we serve!

  Jay E. Adams

  Christian, Doe, Lord

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• At heart, we're all violent raging wolves, but in our actions we can be pacifists.

  Polly Horvath

  Heart, Rage, Violent

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