Quotes about Deeds

The early Christians believed, on the authority of Jesus himself, that the original vision for creation, and for Human within it, had been recaptured and restored through Jesus's inauguration of God's sovereign rule. 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?

a perfectly just God must punish bad deeds regardless of how many good ones someone has performed.

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

We believe we are free, and that God will forgive us. Personally I think otherwise. Finally, transformed into tiny quivering photons, each of our deeds will set off into Outer Space, where the planets will keep watching it like a film until the end of the world.

As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.

Prayer without action is just religion in hiding.

and no prophet who performed all the mighty acts of power and awesome deeds that Moses did in the sight of all Israel.

They did not show kindness to the house of Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) for all the good things he had done for Israel.

“Give thanks to the LORD; call upon His name; make known His deeds among the nations.

Declare His glory among the nations, His wonderful deeds among all peoples.

As for the rest of the acts of Hezekiah and his deeds of loving devotion, they are indeed written in the vision of the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.

As for the rest of the acts of Josiah, along with his deeds of loving devotion according to what is written in the Law of the LORD—