Pastoral Resources

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

In great deeds something abides.

The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.

Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future.

Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.

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.

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.

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

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.