Top 1200 Acts Of Service Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Moral courage further demands that you assume the responsibility for your own acts.

If one acts rightly and honestly, it is difficult to decide whether it is the effect of integrity or skill.

Fear, the worst of all enemies can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage

Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.

I believe in one, incomprehensible God, the immortality of the soul and eternal retribution for our acts.

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

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

The things we do without the fear of failure and the desire for success are the purest acts we'll ever do

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

One of the greatest acts of courage is having to face every day of life feeling unloved.

So here I am, my affections torn between a postal service that never feeds me but can tackle a challenge and one that gives me free tape and prompt service but won't help me out when I can't remember a street name. The lesson to draw from this, of course, is that when you move from one country to another you have to accept that there are some things that are better and some things worse, and there is nothing you can do about it. That may not be the profoundest of insights to take away from a morning's outing, but I did get a free doughnut as well, so on balance I guess I'm happy.

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

Widen your shriveled heart, make the interests of others your own and serve them as much as you can by sympathy, kindness, presents and so forth. So long as one enjoys the things of this world and has needs and wants, it is necessary to minister to the needs of one's fellow men. Otherwise one cannot be called a human being. Whenever you have the opportunity, give to the poor, feed the hungry, nurse the sick - do service as a religious duty and you will come to know by direct perception that the person served, the one who serves and the act of service are separate only in appearance.

I think there's many a slaveholder'll get to Heaven. They don't know better. They acts up to the light they have.

See, I never gain an ounce, because, you know, my anxiety acts like aerobics.

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

If we are to change violent criminal acts across our state, we must work together.

Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design.

One of President Obama's first acts was to give a massive boost to America's scientific community.

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

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

The agonies of those who are falsely accused are of great concern to the living God, and He acts as their defender.

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

The work of art acts like another living person with whom we are conversing.

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

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

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

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

Apparently there is nothing in the news that falls between inhuman acts of horror and kittens.

Raising the flag and singing the anthem are, while somewhat suspicious, not in themselves acts of treason.

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

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

Everyone experiences bouts of jealousy; but the dignified person conceals it, while the vulgar one acts upon it

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

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

I have done big festivals all over Europe with hip hops acts and everything else.

Perhaps we can only truly serve those we are willing to touch, not only with our hands but with our hearts and even our souls. Professionalism has embedded in service a sense of difference, a certain distance. But on the deepest level, service is an experience of belonging, an experience of connection to others and to the word around us. It is this connection that gives us the power to bless the life in others. Without it, the life in them would not respond to us.

Phrases like Worship Service or Service of Worship are tautologies. To worship God means to serve him. Basically there are two ways to do it. One way is to do things for Him that He needs to have done - run errands for Him, carry messages for Him, fight on His side, feed His lambs, and so on. The other way is to do things for Him that you need to do - sing songs for Him, tell Him what's on your mind and in your heart, in general rejoice in Him.

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

The most important quote about poetry and politics that I know is from a different situationist, Guy Debord. He was locked in a debate with the French Surrealists, many of whom by the 40s and 50s were part of the French communist party apparatus. Many Surrealists eventually argued for instrumentalizing art for political ends. Debord countered, "I don't want to put poetry in the service of revolution. I want to put revolution in the service of poetry".

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

Many people think I'm a television personality. I never have been! Just someone who acts it.

A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particles of which it is composed.

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

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

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

A person's acts are always in harmony with the dominating thoughts of his or her mind.

The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults.

As one of its first acts after coming into existence, the EPA banned the vital pesticide DDT.

Practice random acts of kindness, the world needs it more than you think

I believe that the country weekly acts as a form of social cement in holding the community together.

It is not my strength that grows, so much as God's strength in me, which is given more abundantly as the days roll. It is so given on one condition. If my faith has laid hold of the infinite, the exhaustless, the immortal energy of God, unless there is something fearfully wrong about me, I shall be getting purer, nobler, wiser, more observant of His will; gentler, like Christ; every way fitter for His service, and for larger service, as the days increase.

We have to address individual acts of corruption. This is a necessary approach. Go after these individuals.

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

The whole inhabited earth is sacred space in which God lives, breathes, and acts.

Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations.

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

Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.

The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.

He who acts with a constant view to his own advantage will be much murmured against.