HH 472 & 475 - thought, will, deed

HH 472
If the thought and will are good
the deeds and works are good;
but if the thought and will are evil
the deeds and works are evil,
although in outward form they appear alike.

HH 475
To think and to will without doing,
when there is opportunity,
is like a flame enclosed in a vessel and goes out;
also like seed cast upon the sand,
which fails to grow,
and so perishes with its power of germination.
But to think and will and from that to do
is like a flame that gives heat and light all around,
or like a seed in the ground
that grows up into a tree or flower and continues to live.
Everyone can know that willing and not doing,
when there is opportunity,
is not willing;
also that loving and not doing good,
when there is opportunity,
is not loving,
but mere thought that one wills and loves;
and this is thought separate,
which vanishes and is dissipated.
Love and will constitute the soul itself of a deed or work,
and give form to its body in the honest and just things that the person does.
This is the sole source of a person's spiritual body,
or the body of his spirit;
that is, it is formed solely out of the things
that the person does from his love or will.
In a word,
all things of a person and his spirit are contained in his deeds or works.