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“Sacrifice is a passion that unleashes everything away from us so that it can be drawn into everyone around us.”
“So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give.”
“If religion has nothing to do with poverty and misery then why the Muslims are the largest charity takers of the world ”
“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”
“Charity is the power of defending that which we know to be indefensible. Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate. It is true that there is a state of hope...”
“If I murmur in the least at affliction, if I am in any way uncharitable, if I revenge my own case, if I do anything purely to please myself or omit anything because it is a great denial, if I trust...”
“The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.”
“One important aspect of justice, Jose Miranda reminds us, involves the restoration of what has been stolen. Giving food to the hungry or clothing to the naked is not a charitable handout but an exe...”
“[I]f you don't feel or look rich, you don't necessarily feel the same sense of obligation that a traditional rich person does or should: Noblesse oblige is, after all, dependent on a classical idea...”
“He is a Christian, and believes charity begins at home. And often it remains there.”
“Gentlemen are a dying breed.Do your part to help out by supporting them sexually.”
“Our concern for victims is the secular mask of Christian love.”
“Never allow anyone to take advantage of you in no shape form or fashion. People get into relationships for different reasons. And, many are often looking for something in return and it mostly relat...”
“The body is poisoned through the mouth, even so is the heart through the ear ... And even if we do mean no harm, the Evil One means a great deal, and he will use those idle words as a sharp weapon ...”
“Children have but little charity for each other's defects.”
“I have often wondered, Sir, [. . .] to observe so few Instances of Charity among Mankind; for tho' the Goodness of a Man's Heart did not incline him to relieve the Distresses of his Fellow-Creature...”
“Charity is the best form of prayer. Do whatever little you can to help the not so fortunate. You may donate a small portion of your income, you may take out time to teach the underprivileged childr...”
“The man who dies rich dies disgraced leaving the earth without making it better than he met it. Give to humanity.”
“I'm starting to think this world is just a place for us to learn that we need each other more than we want to admit.”
“We very often fail to think as carefully about helping others as we could, mistakenly believing that applying data and rationality to a charitable endeavor robs the act of virtue. And that means we...”
