Quotes about Deeds
Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
Truth leads to good deeds, and good deeds lead to Paradise. Falsehood leads to evil deeds, and evil deeds lead to the Fire.
— Anonymous
These two criteria are like the pillars of true love: deeds, and the gift of self.
— Pope Francis
When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.
— George Bernard Shaw
Really showing love requires more than just words.
— Joyce Meyer
The mystery is Christ among you, your hope of glory" (Colossians 1:27). Hope knows that if great trials are avoided, great deeds remain undone, and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted. Pessimism and defeatism are never the fruit of the life-giving Spirit but rather reveal our unawareness of present risenness.
— Brennan Manning
There is no escaping the gospel logic that all our thoughts, words, and deeds addressed to others are in a real way addressed to Christ himself.
— Brennan Manning
It is to be remembered that by good deeds or words you encourage yourself, who always have need to witness or hear them.
— Henry David Thoreau
His words even imply that philanthropy has deeper depths than is generally realized. The great emotions of compassion and mercy are traced to Him; there is more to human deeds than the doers are aware. He identified every act of kindness as an expression of sympathy with Himself. All kindnesses are either done explicitly or implicitly in His name, or they are refused explicitly or implicitly in His name.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper.
— Philip Schaff
Similarly, man is born for deeds of kindness; and when he has done a kindly action, or otherwise served the common welfare, he has done what he was made for, and has received his quittance.
— Marcus Aurelius
The salvation of life lies in seeing each object in its essence and its entirety, discerning both the material and the causal: in applying one's whole soul to doing right and speaking the truth. There remains only the enjoyment of living a linked succession of good deeds, with not the slightest gap between them. p121
— Marcus Aurelius