Top 100 Quotes About Acts Of Love
#1. There is no act of love that is not an act of work or courage. No exceptions.
M. Scott Peck
#2. Every person whose heart is moved by love and compassion, who deeply and sincerely acts for the benefit of others without concern for fame, profit, social position, or recognition expresses the activity of Chenrezig.
Bokar Rinpoche
#3. The greatest act of courage is not falling in love But, despite everything, falling in love again.
Robin Wayne Bailey
#4. Gretta sits herself down at the table. Robert has arranged everything she needs: a plate, a knife, a bowl with a spoon, a pat of butter, a jar of jam. It is in such small acts of kindness that people know they are loved.
Maggie O'Farrell
#6. The first summer that we spent together,
we did so many obscene things to each other, that
by the end of it, the trees blushed a shy shade of scarlet,
leaves falling to the ground, scandalized by our acts.
Danabelle Gutierrez
#7. In the act of love, as in photography, there is a form of life and a kind of slow death,
Nobuyoshi Araki
#8. Love does not ask many questions, because with thinking comes fear. This might be the fear of being scorned, of being rejected, or of breaking the spell. However ridiculous this may seem, that is how it is. This is why one does not ask, one acts.
Paulo Coelho
#10. Be Kind. Be Generous. Be Helpful. Show Mercy. Be Forgiving. Give Love.
Be Thankful. Be Cheerful. Do Acts Of Kindness for Those Who Can Never Repay you. It all helps to brighten humanity!
Timothy Pina
#11. It's curious how, when you're in love, you yearn to go about doing acts of kindness to everybody.
P.G. Wodehouse
#12. I love men, the restlessness of their corrupted souls, the way they hide their heavy, murderous hearts, their sudden delicacies and small shocking acts of tenderness.
Steve Almond
#14. She'd not known grief would come in waves, brought on by the smallest of things. Nor had she realized that ordinary acts of living would continue even after the loss of a love and that it would remain possible to get caught up in the moment of a simple pleasure before remembering.
Tess Thompson
#15. Arguments escalate when we want to be right more than we want to be CHRIST. It's easy to get blinded in the heat of disagreement. Soon, all we want is to win. Even if victory requires sin. The one who wins the argument is usually the one who acts LESS like Christ.
Francis Chan
#16. In the mind of the public, she seemed endowed with an almost supernatural power to commit heinous acts, no matter the time or place.
Alexis Coe
#17. Mildred Pierce was capable of great acts of love as a mother.
Kate Winslet
#18. An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known. This makes life lovely and lively.
Julia Cameron
#19. Dream big & have huge ambition, but never forget life is lived in small moments and sustained by simple acts of love.
Cory Booker
#20. Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
Mahatma Gandhi
#21. A God of love must be a God of justice. It is because God loves that He is just. His justice balances His love and makes His acts of both
love and justice meaningful.
Billy Graham
#22. Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage
Paulo Freire
#23. I have found that it is the small everyday deed of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love." ~ Gandalf (J. R. R. Tolkein ~ The Hobbit)
J.R.R. Tolkien
#24. Let my worship be within the heart that rejoices,
for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are my rituals.
Therefore, let there be beauty and strength,
power and compassion, honor and humility,
mirth and reverence within you.
Doreen Valiente
#25. five different love languages: quality time, the giving of gifts, acts of service, physical touch, or words of encouragement.
Kate Kennedy
#26. He knew that, in the eyes of God, all things are interlinked; he knew that justice does indeed spring in great surprise from the acts and consequences of ages long forgotten; and he knew that love is not broken by time.
Mark Helprin
#27. Let whoever is wise pay attention to these things and consider L the Lord's acts of faithful love. u
Anonymous
#28. We are a simple creation ever eager to complicate ourselves. We are a loving animal, capable of showing so much love, who even though does not walk on all-four, is also capable, many a time, of nefarious, savage, demeaning, degrading and unfathomable acts against fellow humans.
Levi Cheruo Cheptora
#29. I'm a big fan of certain new acts. I love any genre of music, and I think it's really great to see that there are new artists coming through. It's kinda funny to think that I'm like the old man on campus now. But I'm really happy for groups like One Direction. I think they're really good guys.
Joe Jonas
#30. The doctor that acts out of love doesn't burn out. He or she may get tired physically, but not emotionally.
Bernie Siegel
#31. A woman's friendship borders more closely on love than man's. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#32. The song is about asserting yourself and reclaiming your humanity through an act of love.
Hozier
#33. Remember that an act of hatred belittles the one who acts it
out - but not the one it is done against unless that person allows it
to. Each person who reaches out in love grows a bit himself even
when the love appears to be refused.
Dixie Dawn Miller Goode
#34. Through Compassion and Care we are compelled to random acts of kindness and demonstrations of love.
Jean Hamilton-Fford
#35. You said cray cray."
"I'd say anything for you.
H.M. Ward
#36. Like the Good Samaritan, may we not be ashamed of touching the wounds of those who suffer, but try to heal them with concrete acts of love.
Pope Francis
#37. Life is slow and subtle. Love takes time to show and grow. In life, little acts count. In fact, that is what a life is all about, a long parade of moments deceptively inconsequential.
John F. Kavanaugh
#38. Faith in action is love, and love in action is service. By transforming that faith into living acts of love, we put ourselves in contact with God Himself, with Jesus our Lord.
Mother Teresa
#39. I learned that saying you love your friends isn't enough: that love is a verb - it requires Acts of Love. It is all about the doing, not the saying, and now I make a point, every day, of emailing or phoning or making a plan with those I love.
Jane Green
#40. Our creativity, our inner sense of right and wrong, our ability to love and to reason - all bear witness to the fact that God created us in His image. The Bible says God "has not left himself without testimony" [Acts 14:17 NIV].
Billy Graham
#41. When one ... consciously and determinedly directs his thoughts, controls his acts, and tries to feel and constantly express his love, he becomes a person of love.
Spencer W. Kimball
#42. No Romeo-and-Juliet acts, no nonsense about Love with a large L, none of that popular song claptrap with its skies of blue, dreams come true, heaven with you. Just sensuality for its own sake.
Aldous Huxley
#43. Acts of love, for me, are leaps of bravery.
Anna White
#44. It had sometimes puzzled me why falling in love should be regarded as some wondrous event, accompanied by soaring strings, when it so often ended in humiliation, despair or acts of awful cruelty.
David Nicholls
#45. All human behavior is either an act of love
or a cry for love.
Stan Dale
#46. "How can you see Christ in people?" And we only say: It is an act of faith, constantly repeated. It is an act of love, resulting from an act of faith. It is an act of hope, that we can awaken these same acts in their hearts, too, with the help of God ...
Dorothy Day
#47. In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense that it brings a change from egoism to altruism.
Sigmund Freud
#48. There are building blocks of love and the very bottom layer is comfort. (from Vanishing Acts)
Jodi Picoult
#49. Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.
Desmond Tutu
#50. My director, Jesus, does not teach me to count my acts, but to do everything for love, to refuse Him nothing, to be pleased when He gives me a chance to prove to Him that I love Him - but all this in peace - in abandonment.
Therese Of Lisieux
#51. The act of choosing whether or not to have a child is often an act of love, and always an act of survival.
Merle Hoffman
#52. You're assuming that love is a feeling. It isn't. It can involve feelings, but often it doesn't. Love acts out of faith, which rarely involves feelings. Love is action; it's deciding something is true and living out of that belief.
Donald Miller
#53. During courtship, guarding each other's purity and refraining from intimacy are the acts of lovemaking.
Joshua Harris
#54. Love is defined by difficult acts of human compassion & generosity.
Sharon Salzberg
#55. You are in love with intelligence, until it frightens you. For your ideas are terrifying and your hearts are faint. Your acts of pity and cruelty are absurd, committed with no calm, as if they were irresistible. Finally, you fear blood more and more. Blood and time.
Paul Valery
#57. Let My worship be in the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are My rituals.
Doreen Valiente
#58. Wherever the responsibility lies, shame creates a solid and terrible feeling of unworthiness that resides in our bodies: the storehouse of the memories of our acts, real or imagined, and the secrets we keep about them.
Sharon Salzberg
#59. Often to make acts of love towards Jesus Christ. Immediately on waking, and before going to sleep, to make an act of love, seeking always to unite your own will to the will of Jesus Christ.
Alfonso Maria De Liguori
#60. Such simple and steady acts of kindness are the essence of love, the substance of life. All of us need love; all of us want love. Everything else is a consolation prize. What matters is love.
Lloyd D. Newell
#61. [Love] can be found in making little dresses for stuffed birds, or in a garden of tenderness like I have done - mixing writing, photography, and real spaces. There are all kinds of acts of love.
Annette Messager
#62. Thus you may understand that love alone
is the true seed of every merit in you,
and of all acts for which you must atone.
Dante Alighieri
#63. She is careful who she sleeps with, because only those willing totreat her witht he same reverence are worthy of her attention.
... you are the Goddess, and "all acts of love and pleasure" are your rituals
Dianne Sylvan
#64. Writing is an act of cherishing ... It is an act of love.
Julia Cameron
#65. Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love; he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith.
Austin Farrer
#66. Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#67. Day-to-day acts of service, whether for good or evil, may not seem important, but they are building cords of love that become so strong they can seldom be broken. Ours is to place our areas of love in proper perspective. Meaningful love always works for our eternal progress and not against it.
Marvin J. Ashton
#68. Miss Hale might love another - was indifferent and contemptuous to him - but he would yet do her faithful acts of service of which she should never know.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#69. Wordsworth also said that the best part of a person's life is "his little, nameless, unremembered, acts of kindness and of love." I
Amy Poehler
#71. In life, it is never the big battle, the big moment, the big speech, the big election. That does not change things. What changes things is every day, getting up and rendering small acts of service and love beyond that what's expected of you or required of you.
Cory Booker
#72. So the small things came into their own: small acts of helping others, if one could; small ways of making one's own life better: acts of love, acts of tea, acts of laughter. Clever people might laugh at such simplicity, but, she asked herself, what was their own solution?
Alexander McCall Smith
#73. Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul.
John Milton
#74. Christianity always flourishes most as a life-giving minority, not as a powerful majority. It is through subversive, countercultural acts of love, justice, and service for the common good that Christianity has always gained the most ground.
Scott Sauls
#75. PERFORM all acts with as much love as you would offer God. In Truth, you eat for the satisfaction of the I in you and dress up to please the self-same I . The husband loves his wife for the sake of the I . And who is this I that is persistently inherent in everyone? It is God Himself.
Sathya Sai Baba
#76. We think we want all the time in the world with the people we love, but maybe what we need is the opposite. Just a finite amount of time, so we still think the other person is interesting. Maybe we don't need acts two and three. Maybe love is best in act one.
Nicola Yoon
#77. Community is like peace in that it is a result instead of an action. Peace results from acts of justice and behaviors of love. Community also emerges out of loving behaviors - like compassion and an embrace and forgiveness - and out of acts of justice.
Scot McKnight
#78. Sometimes the greatest love is not found in the dramatic scenes that poets and writers immortalize. Often, the greatest manifestations of love are the simple acts of kindness and caring we extend to those we meet along the path of life.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#79. The totality of love is just three simple acts; devotion, loyalty and sacrifice.
M.F. Moonzajer
#80. By walking in his spiritual life, the Christian will experience growing in his faith, becoming a holy person, understanding more the Word of God, being able to love one's neighbour more, to do acts of mercy and experience more the light of God.
George Calleja
#81. Dying is almost the least spiritual of our acts, more strictly carnal even than the act of love. There are Death Agonies that are like the strainings of the Costive at stool.
Aldous Huxley
#82. What matters are those ordinary acts of kindness and of love, not vaulting ambition with its attendant hubris and smugness.
Michael Dirda
#83. Learning the love language of acts of service will require some of us to reexamine our stereotypes of the roles of husbands and wives.
Gary Chapman
#84. The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.
William Wordsworth
#85. The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.
Victor Hugo
#86. Love has an enormous number of connotations, and if somebody is a person who does kind acts as a way of life, if they are generally disposed to being caring and loving and doing things for other people, then kindness is a much stronger word than we make it out to be.
Susan Hill
#87. You can simply remember that behavioral expressions of love can be divided into physical touch, quality time, gifts, acts of service, and words of affirmation.
Gary Chapman
#88. When we involve others in spontaneous acts of kindness, we go from being strangers to becoming a united team connected at the heart level.
Molly Friedenfeld
#89. Mission is a duty about which one must say 'Woe to me if I do not evangelize' (1 Corinthians 9:16) ... redemption and mission are acts of love [because] those who proclaim the Gospel participate in the charity of Christ.
Pope Benedict XVI
#90. What would be the cumulative effect of millions of small, compassionate acts performed daily by us because of our heartfelt Christian love for others? Over time this would have a transformative effect upon all of our Heavenly Father's children through the extension of His love to them through us.
M. Russell Ballard
#91. If vaccination can be conscripted into acts of war, it can still be instrumental in works of love.
Eula Biss
#92. We must never forget that our small, daily acts can total a great sum of love. They can be the stars by which others find their way through the dark voyage of life.
Jamie Langston Turner
#93. I actually have heard of acts who only do their new album, and don't do their hits. I've never been in that mind set.
Mike Love
#94. Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love. Why Bilbo Baggins? Perhaps because I am afraid, and he gives me courage.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#95. There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is not alone.
Robert Ardrey
#96. I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay ... small acts of kindness and love.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#97. It's an amazing thing that God wants to use your faith and my faith in order to perform the great and mighty acts of love that can transform all of humanity!
Rasmus Rudy
#98. The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.
Frederick William Robertson
#99. If we had the courage to love we would not so value these acts of war.
Jeanette Winterson
#100. A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.
Anita Brookner
