Quotes about Acts

Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love...the smaller the thing, the greater must be our love.

Since holiness is the main thing that excites, draws, and governs all gracious affections, it is no wonder that all such affections tend to holiness. That which men love, they desire to have and to be united to, and possessed of. That beauty which men delight in, they desire to be adorned with. Those acts which men delight in, they necessarily incline to do.

The harder the heart is, the more dead is it in sin, and the more unable to exert good affections and acts.

Thus, to take the phrases in Acts and make them into a magical incantation upon which God s forgiveness rests is to grossly misunderstand the phrase and, consequently, grossly mis portray the kind of God whom Scripture reveals.

Even through such simple acts as telling the truth, being kind, and encouraging others, we bring a smile to God's face.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

Life's great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God's mysterious promptings.

We do not know why God allowed the enemies of His people to prevail at one time and restrained them at another. It is enough to know that God can and does restrain the harmful acts of others toward us when that is His sovereign will. Furthermore, God, in His infinite wisdom and love, intends that good ultimately comes from those harmful acts. The

The slightest act of love holds greater spiritual power than a thousand rituals.

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

Practice random beauty and senseless acts of love.

The Holy Spirit, so central to New Testament writings as diverse as those of Paul, John, and the author of Acts, inhabits the message and empowers the speaker, so that the proclamation of God's act in Christ is the new occasion of creation, issuing from the Trinitarian power of the originating Word itself.