Top 1200 Acts Of Courage Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation.

Acts of violence that occur simply because of how someone looks are horrific.

Why Christians do what they do is just as important as what they do. Bad motives ruin good acts.

To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts.

People who think God is on their side are capable of the most inhumane acts. (Petrov)

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.

Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.

July 4th ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion.

Feeling in the young precedes philosophy, and often acts with a more certain aim.

The NHS is one of the most humanitarian acts that has ever been undertaken in peace time.

Everyone connected to the internet acts globally. it is wildly foolish to think locally.

Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another.

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You're in bad shape when your emotions force you into acts which you know are foolish.

I don't know whether to call myself a golfer who acts or an actor who plays golf.

Democracy gives the aura of legitimacy to acts that would otherwise be considered tyranny.

When public officials turn to financial gain for official acts, we have no choice but to prosecute.

I think Hollywood acts like followers of culture and is constantly seeking to follow trends.

I'm interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification.

You hear rumours of some double-acts who can't stand each other. That can't be true. You couldn't do it.

But giving back isn't just a celebrity thing; the smallest acts can make a big difference.

A theatre tour as me, Joe Lycett, with support acts. That would be the dream.

It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.

Choice is a determinant in personal development ... by my free acts I am making myself.

From the heart, there is no place in America for hatred or acts of prejudice or violence or anti-Semitism.

Power is of two kinds: one is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love.

Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst.

Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives.

My son assisted a few directors and my daughter does stand up acts with me.

The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.

Why do boys say someone acts like a girl as if it were an insult?

Juveniles as well as adults need to know they're going to be punished for their violent acts.

It's because we need to determine who in this country is poised, positioned to commit terrorist acts.

With some electronica acts, you see them live, but you're not really sure what they're doing.

Life's great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God's mysterious promptings.

I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts.

Ahimsa must express itself through acts of selfless service of the masses.

During courtship, guarding each other's purity and refraining from intimacy are the acts of lovemaking.

Anonymously perform acts of kindness, expecting nothing in return-not even a thank you.

Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I think there must also be a prevenient courage that allows us to be brave - that is, to acknowledge that there is more beauty than our eyes can bear, that precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm. And therefore, this courage allows us, as the old men said, to make ourselves useful. It allows us to be generous, which is another way of saying exactly the same thing.

We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.

Courage and confidence are practical necessities . . . courage is the practical form of being true to existence, of being true to truth, and confidence is the practical form of being true to one’s own consciousness.

True compassion sees each person as a brother or sister and acts accordingly.

If we rejoice in the acts of God without discovering His ways, we'll question who He is when He doesn't do what we've asked.

Acts of the devil revealed and reveled, designed to recline the mind to lower level.

For example, I tend to personally reward myself for specific acts of exceptional discipline.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.

But that's the problem with love - it acts on you, works through you, resists your attempts to control.

Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will.

It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.

One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward.

You don't want political acts to become something you just have to do in order to look good.

But Dad and I are the only father-and-daughter acts who have both had No. 1 songs in England.

Random acts of kindness and the desire to do the best job possible lead to trust.

How can a man commit acts of martial valour if he values his life?

A moral person is one who constantly exercises, and acts on, his best rational judgment.

The socialist society would have to forbid capitalist acts between consenting adults.