Orphan Quotes

• Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought not to be stingy. We shall one day find in Heaven as much rest and joy as we ourselves have dispensed in this life.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Men, Widows And Orphans, Joy

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• We learned that orphans are easier to ignore before you know their names. They are easier to ignore before you see their faces. It is easier to pretend they’re not real before you hold them in your arms. But once you do, everything changes.

  David Platt

  Real, Names, Arms

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• There’s a day that is coming when all the last will be first and every orphan will be home.

  Steven Curtis Chapman

  Home, Lasts, Firsts

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• If only 7 percent of the 2 billion Christians in the world would care for a single orphan in distress, there would effectively be no more orphans. If everybody would be willing to simply do something to care for one of these precious treasures, I think we would be amazed by just how much we could change the world.

  Steven Curtis Chapman

  Christian, Thinking, Widows And Orphans

  "Commentary: Our tragedy and God's love for orphans" by Steven Curtis Chapman, www.cnn.com. August 8, 2008.

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• Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Cheating, Taken, Sunday

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• I did nothing to deserve God's love; in fact, I was living as an orphan, without hope. Yet God chose to pursue a relationship with me, and through the death of his son Jesus, I was adopted into God's family.

  Steven Curtis Chapman

  Jesus, Son, Facts

  "Commentary: Our tragedy and God's love for orphans" by Steven Curtis Chapman, www.cnn.com.

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• When I lost my father, I thought I learned about grief and transition. However, nobody tells you what it's like to lose your mother. They don't tell you that you're going to feel like an orphan at whatever age you are as an adult.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Mother, Father, Grief

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Families don't have to match. You don't have to look like someone else to love them.

  Leigh Anne Tuohy

  Love, Inspirational, Family

  "'Blind Side' Story's Real-Life Happy Ending: Super Bowl Victory". abcnews.go.com. February 4, 2013.

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• Just love the one in front of you. Take in the orphan, take in the widow. Just love the one in front of you.

  Heidi Baker

  Widows, Fronts

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• Orphans are easier to ignore before you know their names; but once you know, everything changes.

  David Platt

  Names, Things Change, Easier

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• Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

  John F. Kennedy

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I can't know everything, pretend you're an orphan.

  Cheshire Cat

  Knows, I Can

  "Fictional character: Cheshire Cat". Video Game "Alice", www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• I do not believe in a religion that cannot wipe out the widow's tears or bring a piece of bread to the orphan's mouth.

  Bill Vaughan

  Believe, Religion, Tears

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• My passion is kids, more than just kids is underprivileged kids and orphans.

  Tim Tebow

  Passion, Kids, Underprivileged

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• I always questioned if I was CALLED to adopt, but then I realized no child was ever CALLED to be an orphan.

  David Platt

  Children, I Realized, Ifs

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• Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

  Charles Simic

  Poetry, Silence, Never Quit

  Charles Simic (1985). “The Uncertain Certainty: Interviews, Essays, and Notes on Poetry”

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• You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Children, Stories, Sooner Or Later

  Gabrielle Zevin (2011). “All These Things I've Done”, p.259, Macmillan

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• Give me ... a compassionate heart, quickly moved to grieve for the woes of others and to active pity for them, even as our Lord Jesus Christ beheld our poverty and hasted to help us. Give me grace ever to alleviate the crosses and difficulties of those around me, and never to add to them; teach me to be a consoler in sorrow, to take thought for the stranger, the widow, and the orphan; let my charity show itself not in words only but in deed and truth.

  Johann Arndt

  Jesus, Heart, Grieving

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• The condition of truth, is to allow suffering to speak. Which means attend to suffering of the least of these, of the orphan, the widow, the poor, the working people, the gay brother, the lesbian sister, the transgender, the black people.

  Cornel West

  Brother, Mean, Gay

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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• Not everyone can be an orphan.

  Andre Gide

  Literature

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• Care for him who shall have borne the battle

  Abraham Lincoln

  Widows And Orphans, Civil War, Battle

  Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865

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• People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don't believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.

  Agnes Varda

  Children, Believe, Thinking

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• The love of wisdom is a way of life; that is to say, it's a set of practices that have to do with mustering the courage to think critically about ourselves, society, and the world; mustering the courage to empathize; the courage, I would say, to love; the courage to have compassion with others, especially the widow and the orphan, the fatherless and the motherless, poor and working peoples, gays and lesbians, and so forth - and the courage to hope.

  Cornel West

  Gay, Thinking, Compassion

  Source: blogs.ssrc.org

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• When we adopt—and when we encourage a culture of adoption in our churches and communities—we’re picturing something that’s true about our God. We, like Jesus, see what our Father is doing and do likewise (John 5:19). And what our Father is doing, it turns out, is fighting for orphans, making them sons and daughters.

  Russell D. Moore

  Daughter, Jesus, Father

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• For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Parent, World

  Charles Dickens (1872). “The Works of Charles Dickens”, p.145

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