Love in Action

We can only learn to love by loving.
--Iris Murdoch

They do not love that do not show their love.
--John Heywood

Love is a verb. We can't say it enough. Love must not only be spoken, but must also be shown. The beginning of love is God. He showed his love in the most sacrificial of ways so we could know our incredible value to him. The price of our adoption was the emptying of heaven of its greatest treasure, God the Son, who is our Savior.
--Phil Ware

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
--Leo Buscaglia

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others
how much they love them while they're still alive.
--O. A. Battista

When you put loving thoughts and behavior into the world, you plant seeds of self-respect. When you put unloving thoughts and behavior into the world, you destroy seeds of self-respect.
--Susan Jeffers, in Dare to Connect

Love is not only something you feel.
It is something you do.
--David Wilkerson

If we want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it.
--Mother Theresa

Our love must not be a thing of words and fine talk.
It must be a thing of action and sincerity.
--I John 3:18

Love has a hem to her garment
That reaches the very dust.
It sweeps the streets and lanes,
And because it can, it must.
--Mother Theresa

One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears...
by listening to them.
--Dean Rusk

The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly.
--Henry David Thoreau

Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals.
--J. Isham

What we need to know about loving is no great mystery. We all know what constitutes loving behavior; we need but act upon it, not continually question it. Over-analysis often confuses the issue and in the end brings us no closer to insight. We sometimes become too busy classifying, separating, and examining, to remember that love is easy. It's we who make it complicated.
--Leo Buscaglia

Saying "I Love You" is like a warm fuzzy, it feels good for only a short while. When you tell someone you love them by doing something for them, the message will mean much more and last longer.
--Author Unknown

If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action. Thoughts, readings and discourse on love are of value only as they present questions to be acted upon.
--Leo Buscaglia

A bell is no bell till you ring it
A song is no song till you sing it
And love in your heart wasn't put there to stay
Love isn't love till you give it away.
--Oscar Hammerstein II

Love doesn't sit there like a stone. It has to be made like bread; remade all the time, made new.
--Ursula K. Le Guin

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
--Elbert Hubbard

Some people never say the words "I love you"
It's not their style to be so bold.
Some people never say those words "I love you"
But, like a child, they're longing to be told...
--Paul Simon, (Something So Right)

All of the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
--James Russell Lowell

Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own home.
Give love to your children, to a wife or husband, to a next-door neighbor.
--Mother Theresa

Love seeketh not itself to please, but for another gives its ease.
--William Blake

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
--Johann W. von Goethe

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
--William Wordsworth

I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved
--George Eliot