Quotes about Deeds
How many are your deeds,Though hidden from sight,O Sole God beside whom there is none!You made the earth as you wished, you alone.
— Anonymous
When a man dies they who survive him ask what property he has left behind. The angel who bends over the dying man asks what good deeds he has sent before him.
— Anonymous
The Lord reward him according to his works.
— Anonymous
a man must permit his deeds and his words to agree. When your actions describe a system of evil consequences, you should be judged by those con sequences and not by your explanations.
— Frank Herbert
Just as faith without works is dead, so also works without faith.
— Stephen Covey
We do not become righteous by doing righteous deeds but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds.
— John Calvin
PSALM 112 As the majority of mankind expect to prosper by evil deeds, and as they generally endeavor to enrich themselves by plunder, fraud, and every species of injustice, the prophet enumerates the blessings of God which attend those who worship him in purity, in order that we may know that, in aiming at a life of piety and morality, we shall not lose our reward.
— John Calvin
God's purpose remains God's secret, and he alone can justify his deeds among men. So
— John Calvin
I grant more: thieves and murderers and other evildoers are the instruments of divine providence, and the Lord himself uses these to carry out the judgments that he has determined with himself. Yet I deny that they can derive from this any excuse for their evil deeds. Why?
— John Calvin
A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years.
— Victor Hugo
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
— Lao Tzu
The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.
— St. Francis Of Assisi