Quotes related to Matthew 5:16
We should seek the greatest value of our action.
— Stephen Hawking
Your calling is to bless lives. . . . Just the way you smile or the way you offer to help someone can build their faith.
— Henry B. Eyring
Journey quietly on your pathway to forever with charity & a smile. When you depart it will be said by all that your legacy was a better world than the one you found.
— Og Mandino
Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.
— George Washington
Go out into the world uncorrupted, a breath of fresh air in this squalid and polluted society. Provide people with a glimpse of good living and of the living God.
— Eugene Peterson
The true goal for man is to be what he does. The worth of a religion is the worth of the individuals living it. A mitsvah, therefore, is not mere doing but an act that embraces both the doer and the deed. The means may be external, but the end is personal. Your deeds be pure, so that ye shall be holy. A hero is he who is greater than his feats, and a pious man is he who is greater than his rituals. The deed is definite, yet the task is infinite.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Right living is a way to right thinking.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
One deed of an individual may decide the fate of the world. "If he performs one good deed, blessed is he for he moves the scale both for himself and for the entire world to the side of merit; if he commits one transgression, woe to him for he moves to the side of guilt himself and the whole world.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
There are three starting points of contemplation about God; three trails that lead to Him. The first is the way of sensing the presence of God in the world, in things; the second is the way of sensing His presence in the Bible; the third is the way of sensing His presence in sacred deeds.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
One should always do the good, even though it is not done for its own sake.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
— Abraham Lincoln
Do not tell others how to act unless you can set a good example.
— Aesop