Quotes about Actions

We must, furthermore, realize that the harsh passages in the Bible are only contained in describing actions which were taken at particular moments and stand in sharp contrast with the compassion, justice and wisdom of the laws that were legislated for all times.

You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.

More often than not, it is what you are rather than what you say that will bring an unbeliever to Christ. This, then, is the ultimate apologetic. For the ultimate apologetic is: your life.

You have to look at what a person does with his life. Anyone can say that hes a Christian, but you look at how they live.

You will regret many things in life but you will never regret being too kind or too fair.

You can share your testimony in many ways, by the words you speak, by the example you set, by the manner in which you live your life.

People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is.

If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all.

Life is the soil, our choices and actions the sun and rain, but our dreams are the seeds.

Holiness begins in our minds and works out to our actions. This being true, what we allow to enter our minds is critically important. The television programs we watch, the movies we may attend, the books and magazines we read, the music we listen to, and the conversations we have all affect our minds.

Holiness has to do with more than mere acts. Our motives must be holy, that is, arising from a desire to do something simply because it is the will of God. Our thoughts should be holy, since they are known to God even before they are formed in our minds.

We don't become saints by our actions. We are made saints by the immediate supernatural action of the Holy Spirit alone who works this change deep within our inner being so that we do, in fact, become new creations in Christ (see 2 Corinthians 5:17).