Simple Acts Quotes

#1. One thing is that life's great moments evolve from simple acts of cooperation with God's mysterious promptings-nudges that always lean toward finding what's been lost and freeing what's been enslaved .

Bill Hybels

#2. Dream big & have huge ambition, but never forget life is lived in small moments and sustained by simple acts of love.

Cory Booker

#3. Real friends require honesty, openness, and even vulnerability. They also require attention and simple acts of kindness.

Mary Pipher

#4. A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.

Haruki Murakami

#5. Service is a smile. It is an acknowledging wave, a reaching handshake, a friendly wink, and a warm hug. It's these simple acts that matter most, because the greatest service to a human soul has always been the kindness of recognition.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#6. America has a long and rich tradition of generosity that began with simple acts of neighbor helping neighbor.

Helen Boosalis

#7. I have come to believe that the defining moments of most lives are not acts of courage or greatness, rather they are the simple acts: expressions of virtue or vice that are tossed carelessly like seeds from a farmer's hand, leaving their fruits to be revealed at a future date.

Richard Paul Evans

#8. Even through such simple acts as telling the truth, being kind, and encouraging others, we bring a smile to God's face.

Rick Warren

#9. I have done without electricity, and tend the fireplace and stove myself. Evenings, I light the old lamps. There is no running water, and I pump the water from the well. I chop the wood and cook the food. These simple acts make man simple; and how difficult it is to be simple!

C. G. Jung

#10. Great moves of God are usually preceded by simple acts of obedience.

Steven Furtick

#11. The totality of love is just three simple acts; devotion, loyalty and sacrifice.

M.F. Moonzajer

#12. 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

#13. We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community.

Paul Bloom

#14. Many people believe they have found the key to Heaven's gate, not realizing that there is no key hole. It is a barrier upon which you must knock. And I believe that it is by our small and simple acts of kindness that we find the gate left ajar.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#15. All the small, simple, conscious acts of living a sudden defense against the dying we do every day.

Libba Bray

#16. Almost every day brings opportunities to perform unselfish acts for others. Such acts are unlimited and can be as simple as a kind word, a helping hand, or a gracious smile.

James E. Faust

#17. That these acts are simple doesn't mean that they are simplistic, and it hardly means that they are easy.

Robert C. Martin

#18. Listen to this, Sunny," she said, when her sister opened her eyes. "'Once a subject has been hypnotized, a simple hmmm word will make him or her perform whatever hmmm acts any hmmm wants hmmmed.'"
"Hmmm?" Sunny asked.
"Those are the words I don't know" Violet explained.

Lemony Snicket

#19. So you want to improve the world? Then do it. To the next person who crosses your path, say something kind, do something generous, perform a simple act of service. By doing this on a regular basis, you will indeed improve the world.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#20. Less extreme is the simple costliness in time and convenience and money and effort to replace excessive and addictive leisure with acts of servant love.

John Piper

#21. We forget that the sweetest joys are found in the simplest acts: hugs, laughter, quiet observation, basic movements, holding hands, pleasant music, shared stories, a listening ear, an unhurried visit, and selfless service. It is sad we forget a truth so elementary.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#22. In someone's darkest hour your simple act of kindness may imitate the sunrise, and to sad eyes you become their only source of light.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#23. And if we ask how are we to know where our hearts are, the answer is just as simple - everything which hinders us from loving God above all things and acts as a barrier between ourselves and our obedience to Jesus is our treasure, and the place where our heart is.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#24. As he held up a simple purple crayon, I knew without a shadow of a doubt that, no matter what other acts that hand might have been responsible for, I loved Deacon with all my heart.

Katie Ashley

#25. All for the first time, in the days when acts had no consequences and nothing was irrecoverable, and love was simple and even pain had the dignity of enduring forever: it was unimaginable that time could do anything to diminish it.

James Baldwin

#26. Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety; it shows itself in acts rather than words, and has more influence than homilies or protestations.

Louisa May Alcott

#27. Evil's just destructive? Then storms are evil, if it's that simple. And we have fire, and there there's hail. Underwriters lump it all under 'Acts of God.

Thomas Harris

#28. What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.

Chris Abani

#29. Courage doesn't defeat fear or erase fear or adjust to fear. Courage acts, plain and simple, in the midst of fear.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#30. 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

#31. You're not asking me to guess the mind of Matrim Cauthon, are you?" Elayne asked. "I'm convinced that Mat only acts simple so that people will let him get away with more.

Robert Jordan

#32. It is vital that we serve each other in the kingdom ... So often, our acts of service consist of simple encouragement or of giving ... help with mundane tasks, but what glorious consequences can flow ... from small but deliberate deeds!

Spencer W. Kimball

#33. 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

#34. 17 A man of c quick temper acts foolishly, and a man of evil devices is hated. 18 The simple inherit folly,

Anonymous

#35. The Britons (say historians) were naked, civilized men, learned, studious, abstruse in thought and contemplation; naked, simple, plain in their acts and manners; wiser than after ages.

William Blake

#36. 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