Quotes about Deeds

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open. I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut.

Every deed has a seed. In other words, the deeds you choose to do in this lifetime create a seed for future generations.

Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works; evil works do not make a wicked man, but a wicked man does evil works.

For when the heart is evil, all its works are evil, no matter how splendid they are.

Thus a Christian, being consecrated by his faith, does good works; but he is not by these works made a more sacred person, or more a Christian.

True, then, are these two sayings: "Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works";

Our faith in Christ does not free us from works but from false opinions concerning works, that is, from the foolish presumption that justification is acquired by works.

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

a great deal about what Jesus did between the time of his birth and the time of his death. In particular, they tell us about what we might call his kingdom-inaugurating work: the deeds and words that declared that God's kingdom was coming then and there, in some sense or other, on earth as in heaven. They tell us a great deal about that; but the great creeds don't.

Your purpose is to announce the virtuous deeds of the one who called you out of darkness into his amazing light.

What Jesus did and said was designed to give a decisive answer, in deeds as well as words, to the question, What would it look like if God was running things?