Other people see your deeds. God sees your motives.
God judges hearts and motives, not just outward actions; what people see differs from what God knows.
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Some people lay great emphasis on Christ's second coming, and any of you who may know the halo with which it edged the c…
— James Stalker
We would often be ashamed of our best actions if the world only knew the motives behind them. –François de
— François de La Rochefoucauld
The whole worth of a kind deed lies in the love that inspires it.
— Talmud
It is the motive that gives character to our acts, stamping them with ignominy or with high moral worth. –Ellen G. White…
— Ellen G. White
Where the heart is willing it will find a thousand ways, but where it is unwilling it will find a thousand excuses.
No man does anything from a single motive. –Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literia, 1817
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
