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Actions Quotes by Thomas Merton
- If there is no silence beyond and within the many words of doctrine, there is no religion, only a religious ideology. For religion goes beyond…
- Good moral actions are not enough. Everything in us, from the very depths, must be cleansed and reordered...
- Actions are the doors and windows of being. Unless we act, we have no way of knowing what we are.
- A purely mental life may be destructive if it leads us to substitute thought for life and ideas for actions. The activity proper to man…
More Actions Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology. — Red Auerbach
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as… — Marcus Aurelius
- Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are… — Teresa of Avila
- We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. — Abigail Adams
- Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity. — Abu Bakr
- If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. — John Quincy Adams
- Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father and our… — Ezra Taft Benson
- Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed, happy or… — Ezra Taft Benson