Verily GOD will not wrong any one even the weight of an ant:y and if it be a good action, he will double it, and will recompense it in his sight with a great reward.
Contact with an evil man sometimes suffices to corrupt a good action and to cause evil things to spring from it.
I do not think that so slight a thing can be called a good action; but if it be a good action, well, say that I have done it.
We may add, that the air which he had breathed for many years in this convent had destroyed all personality in him, and had ended by rendering a good action of some kind absolutely necessary to him.
The Destruction of Troy adorned with Highland Dances, are to make up the Entertainment of all who are so well disposed as not to forbear a light Entertainment, for no other Reason but that it is to do a good Action.
He does not increase by a good action, nor decrease by a bad action.
Verily God will not wrong anyone even the weight of an ant: and if it be a good action, he will double it, and will recompense it in his sight with a great reward.
After this sensible decision and a good supper I went to my lonely couch without any regret, for I was happy in the consciousness of having done a good action.
Querini looked at her admiringly, and seemed to have all the confidence of success which a good action gives to the mind.
My whole being was absorbed in the calm delight which follows a good action.
That's what I call a good action," said the fellow; and he went and told them that they did not owe him anything, but that they would never know who paid the money.
While Melanchthon formerly (in his Loci of 1543) had spoken of three causes of a good action (bonae actionis) he now publicly advocated the doctrine of three concurring causes of conversion.
All that can be done is to attend strictly to the general health, keep the skin, bowels, and stomach, in good action, and remove all depressing or irritating circumstances.
If she be of a full habit, however, and makes much blood, the contrary course must be pursued, and the diet be made low and unstimulating, while the bowels are kept free and the skin in good action.
It is particularly advisable in these cases to avoid constipation, and also to keep the skin in good action by bathing and frictions.
Why then should one boast of a good action, or why should one be censured for an evil one, if the thanks or blame redounds to fortune or hazard?
When man wills a good action, the will of God co-operates with his, otherwise not.
It is only for the purpose of doing a good action.
You see, it is not very fatiguing--and you will, moreover, help to do a good action.
And yet I believe these people give them a good breakfast out of pure kindness of heart, and believe that they are doing a good action.
You did a good action," said the prince, "for in the midst of his angry feelings you insinuated a kind thought into his heart.
Wherefore if the object of an action includes something in accord with the order of reason, it will be a good action according to its species; for instance, to give alms to a person in want.
Now a good action is itself a kind of good and perfection of the agent: while an inordinate action is his evil.
According to certain philosophers, a good action is that which is followed by moral satisfaction, a bad action is that which is followed by remorse.
When we have done a good action, is it not certain that we experience a pleasure of a certain nature, which is to us the reward of this action?
This judgment is the following: the author of a good action deserves to be happy, as the author of a bad action deserves to suffer in order to expiate it.
So is it not because we find a good action that we sympathize with it?
Mrs. Makely indicated me, and I bore the merit of my good action as modestly as I could.
The Altrurian glanced at me, and I said I should be only too glad, if I could carry some books, so that I could compromise on a good action, too.
It would be a good action, no doubt, Horace; but as he has with him a fleet of seventy or eighty vessels it is probable that if we made the attempt we should decorate the yard-arms and not Lykourgos.
We have been doing a good action," the doctor said.
Here have we been thinking that we have been doing a good action, and you put us altogether out of conceit with ourselves.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "good action" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
