Quotes related to 1 John 3:18
Love proves itself by deeds, so how am I to show my love? Great deeds are forbidden me. The only way I can prove my love is by scattering flowers, and these flowers are every little sacrifice, every glance and word, and the doing of the least actions for love.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.
— St. Jerome
You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.
— St. Augustine
He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, 'Why do you not practice what you preach'
— Saint Jerome
Most of the time most people know the right thing to do ...its the doing of it that gives them trouble
— Harry S. Truman
Activism. Belief in the gospel needs to be expressed outwardly.
— Mark Driscoll
Judge me by my deeds, though they are few, rather than my words, though they are many.
— Arthur C. Clarke
We can't command our love, but we can our actions.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
The key thing about life is to be true to a set of beliefs. And to be genuine.
— George W. Bush
Your actions speak so loudly, I cannot hear what you are saying.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The true dimensions of a soul are seen in its delights. Not what we dutifully will but what we passionately want reveals our excellence or evil.
— John Piper