Quotes about Acts

We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.

There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.

The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

We can do no great things; only small things with great love.

The Acts has so much to say to our half-hearted and cold-blooded Christianity in the western world. It rebukes our preoccupation with buildings and ministerial pedigree, our syncretism and pluralism, our lack of expectancy and vibrant faith. As such it is a book supremely relevant for our time.

in this book I want to address a question that I think is commonly in the minds of Christian people when they read the Acts of the Apostles: what can we learn from these people who turned the world upside down in so short a space of time?

I think it is significant that it is the younger churches with no pretensions to western `sophistication' who look at the Acts, learn from it, and go out in the power of the same Lord expecting him to do equally mighty things through them. That is happening in Latin America, much of Asia, and a great deal of Africa. The Christians in these regions seem to have a facility we have lost for reading the story, learning from it, and applying it.

We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.

Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love.

Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love....The smaller the thing, the greater must be our love.

We can glimpse it in the book of Acts: the method of the kingdom will match the message of the kingdom. The kingdom…goes out into the world vulnerable, suffering, praising, praying, misunderstood, misjudged, vindicated, celebrating: always — as Paul puts it in one of his letters — bearing in the body the dying of Jesus so that the life of Jesus may also be displayed.