C. S. Lewis Quotes

Love is a verb and verbs show action

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

Love is certain, love is kind, love is yours and love is mine. But it isn't something that we find, its something that we do.

Love grows by service.

To show great love for God and our neighbor we need not do great things. It is how much love we put in the doing that makes our offering something beautiful for God.

The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.

I played at being someone else in movies and live theater, and at being myself in life's most intense, fascinating game - the game of love.

Love's action. It isn't talk and it never has been.

I was amazed by this person who, even though she had everything, would go to feed the homeless and visit sick children and Aids victims. It was like a fairy tale. Who was she really? Why did she do this? She was trying to find love. I wanted the world to see her kindness, her humility: I think she realised that would be her way.

The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.

How does God's love abide in anyone who has the world's goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help? Little children, let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action.

To speak of love is to make love.

The biggest mistake any of us can make is thinking that love is a feeling, an emotion. It's not that at all. It's an action.

Love is more than a word. It's a noun and a verb.

Love, and you shall be loved.

A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart.

The secret of successfully giving yourself away lies not so much in calculated actions as in cultivating friendly, warm-hearted impulses. You have to train yourself to obey giving impulses on the instant -- before they get a chance to cool. When you give impulsively, something happens inside of you that makes you glow, sometimes for hours.

Love one another. We don't need more instructions; we need more examples.

Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.

Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads Let love through good deeds show.

The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in daily life.

The simple and most complex answer is love.

One thing will always secure heaven for us-the acts of charity and kindness with which we have filled our lives. We can do no great things, only small things with great love.

Compassion is of little value if it just remains an idea. It must motivate how we respond to others and be reflective in all our thoughts and actions