Acts Quotes

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One of the chief duties which [the Christian] will punctually and carefully fulfill is the duty of prayer. You will remember in the Book of… — Henry Edward Manning
Why pray if we cannot change God? ...is that why we pray? To change omniscient Love? Isn't it rather to learn what it is and… — Peter Kreeft
If one's careful study of the facts shows that the Catholic Church is correct about Jesus-his life, teachings, death, and Resurrection-then why not give the… — Carl E. Olson
Our small acts of faith and service are how most of us can continue in God and eventually bring eternal light and glory to our… — Neill F. Marriott
Before one can become a magician he must learn to control his own mind; for mind is the substance with which the magician acts, and… — Franz Hartmann
The human being who acts is the human being who lives. — Lee Strasberg
Success is created through the performance of a few small daily disciplines that stack up over time to produce achievements far beyond anything you could… — Robin Sharma
When this boy was brought to Dr. Young, his name being William, the same as mine, my mother was ordered to change mine to something… — William Wells Brown
I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the… — Tiberius
We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that… — Bruce Sterling
That grand drama in a hundred acts, which is reserved for the next two centuries of Europe-the most terrible, most questionable and perhaps also the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The cigar-box which the European calls a 'lift' needs but to be compared with our elevators to be appreciated. The lift stops to reflect between… — Mark Twain
[The purpose of a written constitution is] to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress, their acts shall… — Thomas Jefferson
Courage is required not only in a person's occasional crucial decision for his own freedom, but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks… — Rollo May
Rebellion is not going to go away...What has been unleashed, I think, can't be stopped...The importance of continuing acts of resistance is that it keeps… — Chris Hedges
There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, , etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes… — Karl Marx
The acts we engage in for appeasment today, we will have to remedy at far greater cost and remorse tomorrow. — Winston Churchill
When we suffer, it is because of our own acts; God is not to be blamed for it. — Swami Vivekananda
In the early 1970s. 1971, '72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren't signing acoustic acts any more. Although they had been pretty much… — Dave Van Ronk
Don't just dream about grandiose acts of doing good. Every day do small ones, that add up over time to positive patterns. — Marian Wright Edelman
A wartime Minister of Information is compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of duplicity that even his natural hair must grow to… — Claud Cockburn
The subject of walking is, in some sense, about how we invest universal acts with particular meanings. Like eating or breathing, it can be invested… — Rebecca Solnit
I hate the industry even more now, no bands get nurtured anymore. Labels only spend money promoting acts they know will be Top Ten. I… — Siouxsie Sioux
Attention to detail is the secret of success in every sphere of life, and little kindnesses, little acts of consideration, little appreciations, little confidences,. .… — Hugh Black
Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love; he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the… — Austin Farrer

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