Love in Action Quotes

Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

Love is not a feeling to be felt, it's an action to be learned.

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.

None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.

You must give what will cost you something. This, then, is not just giving what you can live without but what you can't live without or don't want to live without, something you really like. Then your gift becomes a sacrifice, which will have value before God. Any sacrifice is useful if it is done out of love. This giving until it hurts - this sacrifice - is what I call love in action.

Tolerance is a relatively weak virtue; we're called to so much more than that in the body of Christ.

Let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.

I'm thinking of love in action and not something where you say, "Love your enemies," and just leave it at that, but you love your enemies to the point that you're willing to sit-in at a lunch counter in order to help them find themselves. You're willing to go to jail.

Love is indicated by deeds (and not by words)

When I write provocative social and cultural criticism that causes readers to stretch their minds, to think beyond set paradigms, I think of that work as love in action. While it may challenge, disturb and at times even frighten or enrage readers, love is always the place where I begin and end.

Really showing love requires more than just words.

Love cannot remain by itself - it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action and that action is service.

Our love should not be just words and talk; it must be true love, which shows itself in action.

A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.

True love requires action. We can speak of love all day long, we can write notes or poems that proclaim it, sing songs that praise it, and preach sermons that encourage it but until we manifest that love in action, our words are nothing but sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

I don't just want someone who says they love me; I want someone who practices that love for me every day.

If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action.

Jesus wanted to show us his heart as the heart that loved so deeply. For this reason we have this commemoration today, especially of God's love. God loved us, he loved us with such great love. I am thinking of what St Ignatius told us.... He pointed out two criteria on love. The first: love is expressed more clearly in actions than in words. The second: there is greater love in giving than in receiving.

The greenhouse scene! It was just so fun to have the romance and the action.

There is no love apart from the deeds of love; no potentiality of love other than that which is manifested in loving.

For me, spiritual means love in action. So if you are working for love, then you are a spiritual person.

Love is worthless unless it acts out, unless it's expressed in deed and behavior.

Love cannot remain by itself - it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service. Whatever form we are, able or disabled, rich or poor, it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing; a lifelong sharing of love with others.

You can say you love someone - but unless you demonstrate that love through your actions, your words become meaningless.

Christian nonviolence must be embodied in a community that is an alternative to the world's violence.