Christian Motives Quotes

#1. Animated by Christian motives and directed to Christian ends, it shall in no wise go unrewarded: here, by the testimony of an approving conscience; hereafter, by the benediction of our blessed Redeemer, and a brighter inheritance his Father's house.

Richard Mant

#2. Motives are better than actions. Men drift into crime. Of evil they do more than they contemplate, and of good they contemplate more than they do.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#3. Joy is love exalted; peace is love in repose; long-suffering is love enduring; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in action; faith is love on the battlefield; meekness is love in school; and temperance is love in training.

D.L. Moody

#4. We no longer live in a post-Christian society, we live in an anti-Christian society, one in which the Christian faith is dismissed or ridiculed and Christians are considered suspect and their motives and behavior berated.

Josh McDowell

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

John Piper

#6. Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens, the hemlock on one day, and statues on the next.

James Madison

#7. So many books that have Christian characters but are written by atheists mercilessly pillory and mock and question the motives of people with faith. I'm past all that.

Michel Faber

#8. Pure motives do not insure perfect results.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#9. Alice in Wonderland - a book about living in a world where nothing makes sense made perfect sense to me" -Ally

Lynda Mullaly Hunt

#10. I would like a child to grow up to have a happy life and make a contribution to society. I don't mean to be a big scientist or something like that. How many people can do that? I think if you live a happy life and are a good person, that is a contribution to society.

Leslie T. Chang

#11. I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.

Patrick Marber

#12. Since humanity came into being, man hath enjoyed himself too little: that alone, my brethren, is our original sin.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. All you got in life is your honor, man, your own self-image, your own self-respect. If you lose that, or if you give it away or if you sell it, then you ain't got it no more.

Lemmy Kilmister

#14. It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity.

Ferdinand Christian Baur

#15. for the Christian, good acts are not the cover for improper motives but, instead, the fruit borne of a loving relationship with God.

Timothy Joseph Golden

#16. The deeds and motive of man define his personality.

Lailah Gifty Akita