Charity Quotes
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Love, like the opening of the heavens to the Saints, shows for a moment, even to the dullest man, the possibilities of the human race. He has faith, hope, and charity for another being, perhaps but a creation of his imagination: still it is a great advance for a man to be profoundly loving even in his imaginations.
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Charity brings to life again those who are spiritually dead.
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As concerning faith we ought to be invincible, and more hard, if it might be, than the adamant stone; but as touching charity, we ought to be soft, and more flexible than the reed or leaf that is shaken with the wind, and ready to yield to everything.
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All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.
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Most of the money given by rich people in "charity" is made up of conscience money, "ransom," political bribery, and bids for titles.... One buys moral credit by signing a cheque, which is easier than turning a prayer wheel.
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Women have the genius of charity. A man gives but his gold; a woman adds to it her sympathy.
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Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.
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The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.
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Charity work shouldn't be bragged about. It's just something you're supposed to do...I do it because I feel like that's what God wanted me to do. It's as simple as that.
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Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-caluculated less or more.
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The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.
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Our possessions are wholly in our performances. He owns nothing to whom the world owes nothing.
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I'm a strong man. If someone needs my help, my money, my know-how, anything I possess, I'm always ready.
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Well, 'Grimm' is important to me for obvious reasons. I'm lucky to be able to do what I love to do for a living. I never, ever forget that. And charity work just helps me feel like I'm doing something to support my belief that we are all one. I'd like to actually do more in the future.
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Lukewarm people give money to charity and to the church....as long as it doesn't impinge on their standard of living. If they have a little extra and it is easy and safe to give, they do so. After all, God loves a cheerful giver, right?
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Brothers, Fathers and Sisters - all of us in the Missionaries of Charity are doing the same. All of us have been created by God to love and to be loved. We are involved in this work. When you do that, there is joy, unity and love.
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Hope is the mainspring of human action; faith seals our lease of immortality; and charity and love give the passport to the soul's true and lasting happiness.
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Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice.
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All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.
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My charity is outrage, life my shame; And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage!
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We only begin to realize the value of our possessions when we commence to do good to others with them. No earthly investment pays so large an interest as charity.
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I don't work with anyone out of a sense of charity. I use people as long as they are useful to me.
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When I contrast the loving Jesus, comprehending all things in his ample and tender charity, with those who profess to bear his name, marking their zeal by what they do not love, it seems to me as though men, like the witches of old, had read the Bible backward, and had taken incantations out of it for evil, rather than inspiration for good.
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Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves.
