Quotes about Deed

Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge; yet not the details, but the quality. What part does he play in them - a cheerful, manly part, or a poor, drivelling part? However monstrous and grotesque their apparitions, they have a substantial truth.

Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse.

The man who has truly believed in his heart ... his life will be marked by a biblical confession of Christ in word and deed.

He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well.

He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.

Love is worthless unless it acts out, unless it's expressed in deed and behavior.

Faith is not just something you have. Faith is something you do. It can turn a noun into a verb quicker than you can say, "See Spot run.

For it is easy to understand that the best deed is well done: and so well as the best deed is done—the highest—so well is the least deed done; and all thing in its property and in the order that our Lord hath ordained it to from without beginning. For there is no doer but He.

With dim lights and tangled circumstance they tried to shape their thought and deed in noble agreement; but after all, to common eyes their struggles seemed mere inconsistency and formlessness.

Our last deed, like the young of the land crab, wends its way to the sea of cause and effect as soon as born, and makes a drop there to eternity.