“The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.”
“You're right. Your decietfulness far exceeds my modest attempts at dishonesty. I bow-down to your superior duplicity.”
“The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.”
“Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.”
“Action is always superior to speech in the Gospels, which is why the Word became flesh and not newsprint.”
“In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions”