Our Acts Quotes
36 quotes by 32 authors
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It is easy enough to say, I do not believe in God. For God permits all things to be said of Him with impunity. he…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I care little in the existence of a heaven or hell; self respect does not allow me to guide my acts with an eye toward…
— Heinrich Heine
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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.
— Albert Einstein
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Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can…
— Marquis de Sade
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In order to find God in ourselves, we must stop looking at ourselves, stop checking and verifying ourselves in the mirror of our own futility,…
— Thomas Merton
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Our acts our angels are, for good or ill, our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
— John Fletcher
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That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness - someone else always suffers for them.
— Alfred Sutro
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The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that…
— Thomas Merton
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Proper preparation is the key to our success. Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts. Our thinking can be no wiser than our…
— George S. Clason
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All our acts have sacramental possibilities.
— Freya Stark
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No longer in a relational universe, can we study anything as separate from ourselves. Our acts of observation are part of the process that brings…
— Margaret J. Wheatley
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It is vital that we serve each other in the kingdom. . . . So often, our acts of service consist of simple encouragement or…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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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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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
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All our acts, reasoned and unreasoned, are selfish
— Mark Twain
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In a word, acts of any kind produce habits or characters of the same kind. Hence we ought to make sure that our acts are…
— Aristotle
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You must realize that it is the ordinary way of God's dealings with us that our ideas do not work out speedily and efficiently as…
— Thomas Merton
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I believe in one, incomprehensible God, the immortality of the soul and eternal retribution for our acts.
— Leo Tolstoy
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We all have choices. We can build walls or we can build bridges. We can give our talents to creating weapons of annihilation, as so…
— David Krieger
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I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.
— Ella Maillart
Who Wrote These Our Acts Quotes
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