{"id":7836,"date":"2016-08-16T23:44:29","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T04:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/gooddeeds-motive-of\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T23:44:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T04:44:29","slug":"gooddeeds-motive-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/gooddeeds-motive-of\/","title":{"rendered":"GOOD\nDEEDS, MOTIVE OF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Good deeds that are done silently and for a good motive, are the dead that live even in the grave; they are flowers that withstand the storm; they are stars that know no setting.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Claudius<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Do what good you can, and do it solely for God\u2019s glory, as free from it yourself as though you did not exist. Ask nothing whatever in return. Done in this way, your works are spiritual and godly.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Meister Eckhart<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>A Christian should always remember that the value of his good works is not based on their number and excellence, but on the love of God which prompts him to do these things.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>John of the Cross<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Our Lord does not care so much for the importance of our works as for the love with which they are done.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Teresa of Avila<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>The love of God is the principle and end of all our good works.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>John Wesley<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good deeds that are done silently and for a good motive, are the dead that live even in the grave; they are flowers that withstand the storm; they are stars that know no setting. Claudius Do what good you can, and do it solely for God\u2019s glory, as free from it yourself as though you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/gooddeeds-motive-of\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;GOOD<br \/>\nDEEDS, MOTIVE OF&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}