In Action
We can only learn to love by loving.
--Iris Murdoch
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
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
They do not love that do not show their love.
--John Heywood
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
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
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.
--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
