Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.
With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
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.
More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else...All our lauded technological progress-our very civilization-is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.
Most of us love a non-self, or something extrinsic and apart from our inner life; but a mother's love during the time she is a flesh-and-blood ciborium is not for a non-self but for one that is her very self, a perfect example of charity and love which hardly perceives a separation. Motherhood then becomes a kind of priesthood. She brings God to man by preparing the flesh in which the soul will be implanted; she brings man to God in offering the child back again to the Creator.
In essentials unity, in non-essentials liberty, in all things charity and love.
In today's Republican Party, there's a term for people who hate charity and love killing: 'Christian.'
real misery delights not in reproaches and complaints. It is like charity and love - silent, long suffering and mild.
The prayers you perform, the duties you do, the charity and love you give is equal to just one drop. But if you use that one drop, continue to do your duty, and keep digging within, then the spring of Allah's grace and His qualities will flow in abundance.
When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to walk the world and bless it. Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves, some good is born, some gentler nature comes.
Do I need to argue to Your Honor that cruelty only breeds cruelty? That hatred only causes hatred; that if there is any way to soften this human heart which is hard enough at its best, if there is any way to kill evil and hatred and all that goes with it, it is not through evil and hatred and cruelty; it is through charity, and love, and understanding?
If we want to be a person of integrity, we act as if we have integrity and we will be a person of integrity. If we want to be a person of charity and love, we act as if we have that characteristic and we will be that person. The Savior alluded to this principle when he asked, ‘What manner of men ought ye to be?’ Verily I say unto you, even as I am.' We should strive to become like him by acting as he would act.
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