Pastoral Resources

The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.

Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another.

Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love.

Members will hear me say repeatedly words are important; deeds are a reality.

Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.

Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.

One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.

Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.

One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.