Acts Of Love Quotes - Page 5

• A man never forgets his body the way a woman does, because a man is pushing his body, a part of his body, forward, to make the act of love happen. He brings the jut of his body into the act of love, then takes it back, when it has had its way.

  Susan Sontag

  Men, Doe, Body

  Susan Sontag (1992). “The Volcano Lover”

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• There is a lot of difference between offering a garland of flowers bought from a shop and one that we make out of flowers picked from our home garden. When we plant the flowers, water them, pick the flowers, make the garland and take it to the temple, thoughts of God alone live in our minds. The Lord accepts anything offered to Him with intense Love. When we buy a garland at a store and place it on the deity it is only a ceremonial act while the other is a garland of pure devotion and an act of love.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Flower, Home

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• To make your voice heard is difficult. Sometimes we have to burn ourselves in order to be heard. It is out of compassion that you do that. It is the act of love and not of despair.

  Nhat Hanh

  Compassion, Order, Voice

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March 2010.

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• Cooking is an act of love, a gift, a way of sharing with others the little secrets -- 'piccoli segreti' -- that are simmering on the burners.

  Sophia Loren

  Cooking, Secret, Littles

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• Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood.

  Jane Fonda

  Running, Children, Blood

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• There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is not alone.

  Robert Ardrey

  Hate, Moving, Discovery

  ROBERT ARDREY (1966). “THE TERRITORIAL IMPERATIVE”

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• The Eucharist is a never-ending sacrifice. It is the Sacrament of love, the supreme love, the act of love.

  Katharine Drexel

  Sacrifice, Eucharist, Never Ending

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• All writing, all art, is an act of faith. If one tries to contribute to human understanding, how can that be called decadent? It's like saying a declaration of love is an act of decadence. Any work of art, provide it springs from a sincere motivation to further understanding between people, is an act of faith and therefore is an act of love.

  Truman Capote

  Art, Motivation, Spring

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.19, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The greatest act of love was to make a tape for someone. It was the only way we could share music and it was also a way of advertising yourself. Selection, order, the lettering you used for the track list, how much technical detail you went into, whether or not you added artwork or offered only artwork and no track list at all, these choices were as codified as a Victorian bouquet.

  Lavinia Greenlaw

  Order, Track, Choices

  Lavinia Greenlaw (2015). “The Importance of Music to Girls”, p.140, Faber & Faber

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• 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

  Love, Trials, Found

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.182

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• When we think of work, we think of work as an act of service. We think of it as an act of love for humanity.

  Justin Rosenstein

  Thinking, Humanity, Acts Of Service

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• Every act of reverence, every genuflection that you make before the Blessed Sacrament is important because it is an act of faith in Christ, and act of love for Christ. And every sign of the cross and gesture of respect made each time you pass a church is also an act of faith.

  Pope John Paul II

  Blessed, Important, Church

  Pope John Paul II (1980). “Pilgrimage of peace: the collected speeches of John Paul II in Ireland and the United States”, HarperCollins

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• Christians don't simply learn or study or use Scripture; we assimilate it, take it into our lives in such a way that it gets metabolized into acts of love, cups of cold water, missions into all the world, healing and evangelism and justice in Jesus' name, hands raised in adoration of the Father, feet washed in company with the Son.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Christian, Jesus, Father

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• Listening is a rare happening among human beings. You cannot listen to the word another is speaking if you are preoccupied with your appearance, or with impressing the other, or are trying to decide what you are going to say when the other stops talking, or are debating about whether what is being said is true or relevant or agreeable.
  Such matters have their place, but only after listening to the word as the word is being uttered.
  Listening is a primitive act of love in which a person gives himself to another’s word, making himself accessible and vulnerable to that word.

  William Stringfellow

  Talking, Giving, Listening

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• It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Down And, Quiet, Radical

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness”, p.102, Hachette UK

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• Here God is not approached as an object that we must love, but as a mystery present in the very act of love itself.

  Peter Rollins

  Mystery, Objects

  Peter Rollins (2013). “The Idolatry of God: Breaking Our Addiction to Certainty and Satisfaction”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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• Photography is an act of love.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography

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• 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

  Love Is, Redemption, Charity

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• No matter what circumstances you sisters experience, your influence can be marvelously far-reaching. I believe some of you have a tendency to underestimate your profound capacity for blessing the lives of others. More often than not, it is not on the stage with some public pronouncement but in your example of righteousness and the countless gentle acts of love and kindness done so willingly, so often on a one-to-one basis.

  James E. Faust

  Kindness, Believe, Blessing

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• Everything we do is either an act of love or a cry for help.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Marriage, Helping

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• Every act of love is a work of peace no matter how small.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Marriage, Matter

  Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers”, p.37, New World Library

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• Because love is an act of courage, not of fear, love is a commitment to others. No matter where the oppressed are found, the act of love is commitment to their cause--the cause of liberation.

  Paulo Freire

  Commitment, Love Is, Matter

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.89, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• When you cook it should be an act of love. To put a frozen bag in the microwave for your child is an act of hate.

  Raymond Blanc

  Children, Hate, Cooking

  "Celebrity Chef Dishes Microwave Mothers". www.telegraph.co.uk. October 02, 2001.

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• One might have supposed that the true act of love was to lie together and talk.

  Mary Renault

  Lying, Inspiring Love, Together

  mary renault (1969). “fire from heaven”

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• This act of total surrender is not merely a fantastic intellectual and mystical gamble; it is something much more serious. It is an act of love for this unseen person, who, in the very gift of love by which we surrender ourselves to his reality also makes his presence known to us.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Reality, Intellectual

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