354 quotes found
“Compassion is a reflection of our connectedness. YOUR devotion to helping others is an expression of YOUR greatness.”
“We are all receiving Charity. There is something in each of us that cannot benaturally loved.”
“Auntie An-mei had cried before she left for China, thinking she would make her brother very rich and happy by communist standards. But when she got home, she cried to me that everyone had a palm ou...”
“The purpose of any charity is simply to turn people's mirrors into windows. An outward view of the world's needs are vast in comparison to an inward one.”
“In words which can still bring tears to the eyes, St. Augustine describes the desolation into which the death of his friend Nebridius plunged him (Confessions IV, 10). Then he draws a moral. This i...”
“Of the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield and body, for he was their mother’s elder brother.”
“Though I have all faith so that I could remove mountains and have not charity I am nothing.”
“And now abideth faith hope charity these three but the greatest of these is charity.”
“What we frankly give forever is our own.”
“That charity which longs to publish itself ceases to be charity.”
“He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.”
“I was an hungred and ye gave me meat I was thirsty and ye gave me drink I was a stranger and ye took me in.”
“Organized charity scrimped and iced In the name of the cautious statistical Christ.”
“Our charity begins at home And mostly ends where it begins.”
