Quotes about Actions

Man considers the actions, but God weighs the intentions.

If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.

True faith will always show itself by its fruits . . . I suspect that, with rare exceptions, men die just as they have lived.

Love can do all things. The most impossible tasks seem to it easy and sweet. You know well that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, as at the love with which we do them. What, then, have we to fear?

My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground upon which I stand.

Many are secretly seeking their own ends in what they do, yet know it not.

All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.

We give life meaning not only through our actions but also through loving and, finally, through suffering. Because how human beings deal with the limitation of their possibilities regarding how it affects their actions and their ability to love, how they behave under these restrictions—the way in which they accept their suffering under such restrictions—in all of this they still remain capable of fulfilling human values.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

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

Our worth is always determined by our deeds, not by our good intentions, however noble.