Quotes about Actions

Jesus calls all sinners to repent. True repentance is not a nebulous response of sorrow; it requires definite actions. Repentance so transforms the mind that it results in a changed life. Repentance does not merely say "I'm sorry" (similar to what we say when we accidentally step on someone's foot). Rather, true repentance says from the heart, "I've been wrong and grieve over my sin, but now I see the truth, and I will change my ways accordingly.

It's not what we do once in a while that counts, but our habitual actions. What ultimately determines who we become and where we go in life are our decisions. These decisions shape our destiny.

Having faith, beliefs, and convictions is a great thing, but your life is measured by the actions you take based upon them.

Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives.

The answer for Christians in the age of outrage is not some silver-bullet study that will give a new piece of knowledge. Rather, it begins with looking at our habits, the things that we love every day through our choices and actions.

By their fruits ye shall know them.

Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

As ye sew, so shall ye rip.

Life is like a pond, and every decision and act we commit, good or bad, is a pebble flung into it. The ripples spread in widening circles.

Militant missionary religions can share this illusion of the proud past, ' but few understand the ultimate peril to humankind-that false sense of freedom from responsibility for your own actions.

a man must permit his deeds and his words to agree. When your actions describe a system of evil consequences, you should be judged by those con sequences and not by your explanations.

These are illusions of popular history which a successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumphs; a good deed is its own reward; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness . . . —FROM THE INSTRUCTION MANUAL: