Quotes about Deeds

Judge me by my deeds, though they are few, rather than my words, though they are many.

The best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

So spake the fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds.

Sin does not only still abide in us, but is still acting, still laboring to bring forth the deeds of the flesh. When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone; but as sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be the most quiet, and its waters are for the most part deep when they are still, so ought our contrivances against it be vigorous at all times and in all conditions, even where there is least suspicion.

conversion is the creation of new desires, not just new duties; new delights, not just new deeds; new treasures, not just new tasks.

Apart from new birth, I am my problem. You are not my main problem. My parents were not my main problem. My enemies are not my main problem. I am my main problem. Not my deeds, and not my circumstances, and not the people in my life, but my nature is my deepest personal problem.

May our light shine in this world so that people see you in our sacrificial deeds of love and our compromising words of truth and give glory to your hallowed name, Father

The character is revealed, not by occasional good deeds and occasional misdeeds, but by the tendency of the habitual words and acts.

We are to be Christ's representatives on the earth—pure, kind, just, and merciful, full of compassion, showing unselfishness in word and deed.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

Then Martin says, as if he is writing a commentary on Matthew 6:19—24: "The acid test is not what we say, but what we do; not what we promise in words, but what we actually give in money.