In the poor and outcast we see Christ’s face; by loving and helping the poor, we love and serve Christ.
We should practice by showing one another love and helping one another. It is a mistake to pursue happiness and to seek to the avoid suffering by deceiving and humiliating other people. We must try to achieve happiness and eliminate suffering by being good-hearted and well-behaved.
May we help more than we hurt, may we seek to understand more than be understood and may we love more than we judge.
The quickest way to forget about your pain is to help someone who hurts more.
Choose Life over the other stuff. Get out of your head. Live. Dress up. Eat. Touch people. Help out. Give up. Love people. Give your best away. There’s more. What’s the problem? Relax. You’re going to die. Throw a party. Eat off my plate. Sing to me. Meet me in the bedroom. Get a massage. Give one. Let your amazement out into the room. Pry open the box you hide your joy in. Be a poem.
You are not here in the world for yourself. You have been sent here for others. The world is waiting for you!
It's much harder to be a liberal than a conservative. Why? Because it is easier to give someone the finger than a helping hand.
Charity is the cement which binds Communities to God and persons to one another . . .
He has not truly lived who has not lived for others, in sympathy and in harmony with his fellows.
Most men worry about their own bellies and other people's souls, when we all ought to be worried about our own souls and other people's bellies.
If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.
The country is in deep trouble. We've forgotten that a rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it. We need the courage to question the powers that be, the courage to be impatient with evil and patient with people, the courage to fight for social justice. In many instances we will be stepping out on nothing, and just hoping to land on something. But that's the struggle. To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.
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.
It is our duty to prefer the service of the poor to everything else and to offer such service as quickly as possible. If a needy person requires medicine or other help during prayer time, do whatever has to be done with peace of mind. Offer the deed to God as your prayer.... Charity is certainly greater than any rule. Moreover, all rules must lead to charity.
When caring for your neighbor becomes a compulsory obligation imposed by government instead of voluntary, charity turns to confiscation and freedom to achieve to involuntary servitude. To liberals, compassion seems to be defined by how many people are dependent on the government; to conservatives, it's defined by how many people no longer need help. One promotes dependence, the other freedom, responsibility and achievement.
The best ideas are the honest ones. Ones born out of personal experience. Ones that originated to help a few but ended up helping many.
Service is the rent we pay for living.
Going to where the silence is. That is the responsibility of a journalist: giving a voice to those who have been forgotten, forsaken, and beaten down by the powerful.
Give more than is expected, love more than seems wise, serve more than seems necessary, and help more than is asked.
Go out there and swear to this world your oath, not with your words, but with what you do. Not with your hand over your heart, but with your hand outstretched to a world that desperately needs your hand, your help, your insights, your creativity, your honor, your courage. It needs you.
Never forget the favors done for you. Always forget the favors you’ve done for others.
Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. [...] You only need a heart full of grace.
Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
What are you doing for others?
Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve.
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