Quotes related to 1 John 3:18
Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy.
— Thomas Paine
The line of lovelessness is not drawn between speaking and doing, but between speaking and doing in the truth, and speaking and doing in emptiness. Truth turns word-love into deed-love.
— John Piper
There is no "playing with truth" in the Charkha programme, for satyagraha is not predominantly civil disobedience but a quiet and irresistible pursuit of Truth.
— Mahatma Gandhi
One never errs more safely than when one errs by too much loving the truth.
— St. Augustine
Becoming the beloved is pulling the truth revealed to me from above down into the ordinariness of what I am, in fact, thinking of, talking about and doing from hour to hour.
— Henri Nouwen
The conscience is eternal and never dies. Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.
— Martin Luther
The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic follow the moon.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity,
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Truth leads to good deeds, and good deeds lead to Paradise. Falsehood leads to evil deeds, and evil deeds lead to the Fire.
— Anonymous
Don't be consistent but be simply true.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
We do not strive for spectacular actions. What counts is the gift of yourself, the degree of love you put into each of your deeds.
— Mother Teresa
People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive.
— Philip Yancey