
“Love is an act of faith in another person, not an act of surrender.”
Source: Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), What should survivors tell their children?
Source: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
“Love is an act of faith in another person, not an act of surrender.”
Source: Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), What should survivors tell their children?
“Love isn't an act, it's a whole life.”
Vol. I, p. 113 <!-- 90? intellectual cleverness that remains merely cynical and confined to the personal or partisan contrasted with wise compassionate awareness which transcends such bounds and abides with the eternal and universal qualities and vital resolutions beyond all mortal aims. -->
1980s, Letters to the Schools (1981, 1985)
Context: The very nature of intelligence is sensitivity, and this sensitivity is love. Without this intelligence there can be no compassion. Compassion is not the doing of charitable acts or social reform; it is free from sentiment, romanticism and emotional enthusiasm. It is as strong as death. It is like a great rock, immovable in the midst of confusion, misery and anxiety. Without this compassion no new culture or society can come into being. Compassion and intelligence walk together; they are not separate. Compassion acts through intelligence. It can never act through the intellect. Compassion is the essence of the wholeness of life.
“Every moment in life is an act of faith”
Variant: Life is an act of faith.
Source: Brida
“There are three acts of faith, assent, acceptance, and assurance.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 226.
My Country is the World (1984)