Quotes about Act

Heaven is here and God is here, because God and his spiritual agents act here and are constantly available here.

An act of faith in the biblical tradition is always undertaken in an environment of knowledge and is inseparable from it.

Freedom comes with the decision: it does not wait for the act.

The word which denotes the act of baptizing, according to the usage of Greek writers, uniformly signifies or implies immersion.

Thoughts which a man deliberately places in his own mind, and encourages with sympathy, and with which he mixes any one or more of the emotions, constitute the motivating forces, which direct and control his every movement, act, and deed!

I who am without love cannot become love unless Love identifies me with Himself. But if He sends His own Love, Himself, to act and love in me and in all that I do, then I shall be transformed, I shall discover who I am and shall possess my true identity by losing myself in Him. And that is what is called sanctity.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

Now, in some cosmic act of God or coincidence, the girl had returned to me. Who was I kidding? There is no coincidence. There is punishment, retribution. Or perhaps love and mercy and grace. Which was it?

Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this.

The gospel (and this is a theme to which we shall frequently return) is not only good but great news: testimony to God's great saving act in Jesus Christ, a doing "than which nothing greater can be conceived.

If I were doing something that the Bible condemns, I have two choices. I can straighten up my act, or I can somehow distort and twist and change the meaning of the Bible.

The transition from TV to films wasn't overwhelming, since an actor's ultimate job is to act.