#action

The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity. ↗

— John Strachan

#awakened #called #charm #christian #constitute

In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#also #appears #body #everyone #face

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#action #begins #home #how #much

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives. ↗

— Saint Teresa

#always #construe #criticizing #defects #disturb

Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book that will stop time, lift me out of my quotidian existence and alter my thinking forever. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#beverage #book #comfortable #couch #distractions

I had earlier concluded that a war with Iraq would be a distraction from the successful and expeditious completion of our aims in Afghanistan. Now I had come to question whether the White House was telling the truth. ↗

— Bob Graham

#aims #come #completion #concluded #distraction

I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#change #get #i #less #lot

There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, let's look to material conditions, to the systems of production, to the needs that human beings have, and to competing alternative solutions to the satisfaction of those needs. ↗

— Marvin Harris

#beings #competing #conditions #following #human

My idea of a romantic night is to watch action films. ↗

— Corey Hart

#action #action films #films #idea #night

You don't get results by focusing on results. You get results by focusing on the actions that produce results. ↗

— Mike Hawkins

#focusing #get #produce #results #you