Acts Quotes
1679 Acts quotes by 1187 unique authors
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We find Christ in all the Scriptures. In the Old Testament He is predicted, in the Gospels He is revealed, in Acts He is preached,…
— Alistair Begg
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Big Dreams start with small unreasonable acts
— Adam Braun
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Each of the substances of a man's diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life…
— Hippocrates
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But if we know that the people of God are first a fellowship of sinners, we are freed to hear the unconditional call of God's…
— Richard J. Foster
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We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods.…
— Paul Bloom
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Great opportunities are often disguised as small acts of service.
— Rick Warren
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If other people do not understand our behavior-so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to…
— Erich Fromm
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Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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There are many today who believe that there are people running around this world right now who are performing greater miracles, performing miracles in greater…
— R C Sproul
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Like so many other positive acts, it turns out that hugging boosts our immune system. Plus it just plain feels good! So hug someone today,…
— M. J. Ryan
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God writes with a pen that never blots, speaks with a tongue that never slips, acts with a hand that never fails
— Charles Spurgeon
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I expect VA's inspector general and the FBI to work closely together so that we can identify and eliminate the flaws that allowed this leak…
— Steve Buyer
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The cell never acts; it reacts.
— Ernst Haeckel
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Even if we have thousands of acts of great virtue to our credit, our confidence in being heard must be based on God's mercy and…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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True spiritual knowledge has sometimes flourished most grandly in some who were without eloquence and almost illiterate. And this is very clearly shown by the…
— John Cassian
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It is not enough to know the Son of God in the Father's nature only, unless we acknowledge Him in what is ours without withdrawal…
— Pope Leo I
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... the Apostle Peter declared that the Church was built by the Holy Spirit. For you read that he said: 'God, Who knows the hearts…
— Ambrose
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The Son is 'Life' (Jn. 14:6) because He is 'Light', constituting and giving reality to every thinking being. 'For in Him we live, move and…
— Gregory of Nazianzus
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[Our Lord Jesus Christ] was... carried up to heaven (Lk. 24:50-51). With a radiant cloud for a chariot, He ascended in glory (cf. Acts 1:9),…
— Gregory Palamas
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For every Christian, the proclamation and witnessing of the Gospel are never an isolated act. This is important. For every Christian the proclamation and witnessing…
— Pope Francis
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A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Training the intellect does not result in intelligence. Intelligence comes into being when one acts in perfect harmony, both intellectually and emotionally.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Our bodies are perishable, wealth is not at all permanent and death is always nearby. Therefore we must immediately engage in acts of merit.
— Chanakya
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We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
— Samuel Alexander
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