"O Son of My Handmaid! Guidance hath ever been given by words, and now it is given by deeds. Every one must show forth deeds that are pure and holy, for words are the property of all alike, whereas such deeds as these belong only to Our loved ones. Strive then with heart and soul to distinguish yourselves by your deeds. In this wise We counsel you in this holy and resplendent tablet."
-Baha’u’llah, The Hidden Words
2007-10-30 09:03:31 · 3 answers · asked by Gravitar or not... 5 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
For Mr. know it all
1:22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
1:23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: 1:24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
1:25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
1:26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
(King James Bible, James)
2007-10-31 08:28:46 · update #1
8:21 And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it.
(King James Bible, Luke)
2007-10-31 08:31:29 · update #2
4:18 And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word, 4:19 And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.
4:20 And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred.
(King James Bible, Mark)
2007-10-31 08:35:44 · update #3
it means that god is guiding us thru his words,
these words are for everyone, we must live gods words thru our deeds, these deeds must be of pure intention, actions speak louder than words. you must desire to be known by god and man for good deeds for mankind.
meg
2007-10-31 02:29:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It would have been better to find a quote like this in the Bible (and I bet you could!) Christians today could use a reminder that deeds matter more than words.
I think Christians are just beginning to realize that the real agenda of the GOP has nothing to do with Christian values, that they've been strung along by -words- since President Reagan, a man who espoused Christian values in golden rhetoric but didn't actually even go to church.
2007-10-30 09:12:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
'for words are the property of all alike' false.
All deeds of that self are property of that self and no other. That its purpose is for an others good does not change that truth to falsehood. It is not the selfs love that makes an act or 'deed' good or evil of an other, it is the others spiritual condition and that other may be 'Our loved ones' or not those ones we are loving, nor is that love known of a kind, but if it is known as love then it is a love of that kind known as love, different but love.
The Will is positive, the Judgment is negative.
2007-10-30 14:32:52 · answer #3 · answered by Psyengine 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋