Charity Quotes - Page 12

• In the real world, I see conservatives volunteering at adoption agencies, at churches, at bake sales and the local American Legion Post while the only charity a progressive sends is a smug sermon on fair share and what fairness is.

  Allen West

  Real, Agency, Volunteer

  "CPAC Highlights: Rubio and West". "The Rush Limbaugh Show" with Rush Limbaugh, origin-www.rushlimbaugh.com. March 14, 2013.

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• We have all been hearing from childhood of such things as love, peace, charity, equality, and universal brotherhood; but they have become to us mere words without meaning, words which we repeat like parrots, and it has become quite natural for us to do so. We cannot help it.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Childhood, Brotherhood, Hearing

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.57, editionNEXT.com

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• When we die to something, something comes alive within us. If we die to self, charity comes alive; if we die to pride, service comes alive; if we die to lust, reverence for personality comes alive; if we die to anger, love comes alive.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Pride, Self, Personality

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• I'm worried that a few people are confusing the ringing of a church bell with the ringing of a cash register, .. When I hear about leaders of charities being provided a $300,000 Bentley to drive around in, my fear is that it's the taxpayers who subsidize this charity who are really being taken for a ride.

  Chuck Grassley

  Taken, Church Bells, People

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• Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Poison, Slander

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• Have charity towards all beings. Pity those who are in distress. Love all creatures. Do not be jealous of anyone. Look not to the faults of others.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jealous, Looks, Faults

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2376, Manonmani Publishers

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• No civilisation can grow unless fanatics, bloodshed, and brutality stop. No civilisation can begin to lift up its head until we look charitably upon one another; and the first step towards that much-needed charity is to look charitably and kindly upon the religious convictions of others. Nay more, to understand that not only should we be charitable, but positively helpful to each other, however different our religious ideas and convictions may be.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Religious, Ideas, Different

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1111, Manonmani Publishers

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• Charity is like warmth in springtime or summer that causes grass, plants, and trees to grow. Without charity, or spiritual warmth, nothing grows.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Summer, Spiritual, Tree

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• There can be no Christianity where there is no charity

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Christianity

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• I wear black for those who never read or listen to the words that Jesus said, about the road to happiness, through love and charity.

  Johnny Cash

  Religious, Jesus, Black

  Johnny Cash (2002). “The Very Best of Johnny Cash (Songbook)”, p.46, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Love is the most necessary of all virtues. Love in the person who preaches the word of God is like fire in a musket. If a person were to throw a bullet with his hands, he would hardly make a dent in anything; but if the person takes the same bullet and ignites some gunpowder behind it, it can kill. It is much the same with the word of God. If it is spoken by someone who is filled with the fire of charity- the fire of love of God and neighbor- it will work wonders.

  Anthony Mary Claret

  Love, Christian, Fire

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• True charity consists in doing good to those who do us evil, and in thus winning them over.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Winning, Evil, Catholic

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• Our efforts cannot and should not substitute for just public policies and effective programs to meet the needs of the hungry...Money, food, and time donated to Catholic charities should not be misread as a sign for success for volunteerism, but rather a desperate attempt to feed the hungry people when others have abandoned their responsibility.

  John Ricard

  Responsibility, People, Effort

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• Justice comes before charity.

  Pope John XXIII

  Justice, Catholicism

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• Quite agreeable, of course, was this state of things to those who thought it in their abundant riches the result of inevitable economic laws and accordingly, as if it were for charity to veil the violation of justice which lawmakers not only tolerated but at times sanctioned, wanted the whole care of supporting the poor committed to charity alone.

  Pope Pius XI

  Law, Justice, Veils

  Catholic Church. Pope (1922-1939 : Pius XI), Pope Pius XI (1947). “On reconstructing the social order: (Quadragesimo anno)”

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• And I have found that when we Catholics, in the spirit of love and charity, declare our faith boldly and with conviction, we are more likely to find kindred spirits. This is how we must comport ourselves if we are to fulfill our Lord's command in the Gospel of John (17:21), Ut unum sint, that all may be one.

  Benedict Groeschel

  Catholic, May, Spirit

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• The world calls for and expects from us simplicity of life, the spirit of prayer, charity towards all, especially towards the lowly and the poor, obedience and humility... Without this mark of holiness, our word will have difficulty in touching the heart of modern man. It risks being vain and sterile.

  Pope Paul VI

  Faith, Prayer, Inspiration

  Catholic Church. Pope (1963-1978 : Paul VI), Pope Paul VI (1976*). “On evangelization in the modern world”

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• It is seldom we have the heart to throw ourselves, if I may so speak, on the Divine Arm; we dare not trust ourselves on the waters, though Christ bids us. We have not St. Peter's love to ask leave to come to him upon the sea. When we once are filled with that heavenly charity, we can do all things, because we attempt all things - for to attempt is to do.

  John Henry Newman

  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

  John Henry Newman (1895). “Selection, Adapted to the Seasons of the Ecclesiastical Year: From the Parochial & Plain Sermons”

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• O Jesus, come back into our society, our family life, our souls and reign there as our peaceful Sovereign. Enlighten with the splendor of faith and the charity of Your tender heart the souls of those who work for the good of the people, for Your poor. Impart to them Your own spirit, a spirit of discipline, order and gentleness, preserving the flame of enthusiasm ever alight in their hearts... May that day come very soon, when we shall see You restored to the center of civic life, borne on the shoulders of Your joyful people.

  Pope John XXIII

  Faith, Jesus, Inspiration

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• On the last day, when the general examination takes place, there will be no question at all on the text of Aristotle, the aphorisms of Hippocrates, or the paragraphs of Justinian. Charity will be the whole syllabus.

  Robert Bellarmine

  Faith, Inspiration, Examination

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• At the end of our life, we shall all be judged by charity.

  John of the Cross

  Faith, Inspiration, Catholic

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• Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man's entire relation to God and to his neighbor.

  Aelred of Rievaulx

  Love, God, Faith

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• It is by the path of love, which is charity, that God draws near to man, and man to God. But where charity is not found, God cannot dwell. If, then, we possess charity, we possess God, for "God is Charity" (1John 4:8)

  Albertus Magnus

  Love, Faith, Inspiration

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• O Sacrament of Love! O sign of Unity! O bond of Charity! He who would have Life finds here indeed a Life to live in and a Life to live by.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, Inspiration, Unity

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• This my goodness does to endow the souls of the just more fully with spiritual riches when for my love they are stripped of material goods because they have renounced the world and all its pleasures and even their own will. These are the ones who fatten their souls, enlarging them in the abyss of my charity. Then I become their spiritual provider. The Holy Spirit becomes their servant.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Faith, Spiritual, Inspiration

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