It is the motive that gives character to our acts, stamping them with ignominy or with high moral worth.
–Ellen G. White, Desire of Ages, 615.
Ellen G. White, Desire of Ages, 615.
The motive behind an act, not the act alone, determines its true moral worth.
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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
If thou givest to receive the like, it is exchange; if to receive more, it is covetousness; if to receive thanks, it is …
— Unknown
Other people see your deeds. God sees your motives.
No man does anything from a single motive. –Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literia, 1817
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Where the heart is willing it will find a thousand ways, but where it is unwilling it will find a thousand excuses.
