Every Act Quotes
156 quotes by 117 authors
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Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Prayer is spiritual exercise and every act of prayer stretches the soul.
— James Dillet Freeman
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Every act of reverence, every genuflection that you make before the Blessed Sacrament is important because it is an act of faith in Christ, and…
— Pope John Paul II
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Love is costly. T forgive in love costs us our sense of justice. To serve in love costs us time. To share in love costs…
— Jerry Bridges
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Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria.
— Robert M. Hutchins
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Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity, and feeling of…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Above all things, lose no occasion of exercising your dispositions to be grateful, to be generous, to be charitable, to be humane, to be true,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the commission under which it is…
— Alexander Hamilton
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In the dominant Western religious system, the love of God is essentially the same as the belief in God, in God’s existence, God’s justice, God’s…
— Erich Fromm
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His words even imply that philanthropy has deeper depths than is generally realized. The great emotions of compassion and mercy are traced to Him; there…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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What I really need is to get clear out about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge precedes every…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Live every act fully, as if it were your last.
— Gautama Buddha
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As Gandhi wisely points out, even as we serve others we are working on ourselves; every act, every word, every gesture of genuine compassion naturally…
— Wayne Muller
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They play it safe, are quick to assassinate what they do not understand. They move in packs ingesting more and more fear with every act…
— Erykah Badu
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In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our own competitive particularity.
— C.S. Lewis
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If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the…
— Richard Hofstadter
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Every instance of obedience, from right motives, strengthens us spiritually, whilst every act of disobedience weakens us.
— George Muller
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The problem with revenge is that it never gets what it wants; it never evens the score. Fairness never comes. The chain reaction set off…
— Lewis B. Smedes
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The dialectical or ecological approach asserts that creating the world is involved in our every act. It is impossible for us to operate in our…
— Wes Jackson
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Since it is possible that thou mayest depart from life this very moment, regulate every act and thought accordingly. But to go away from among…
— Marcus Aurelius
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