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Letter "C" » Charity
«Our charity begins at home, And mostly ends where it begins»
Author: Horace Smith
| About:
Charity
«Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want.»
«The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation»
«Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.»
«They take the paper and they read the headlines, so they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread lines, and they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball»
Author: Ogden Nash
(Writer)
| About:
Charity,
Newspapers
| Keywords:
costume, costumes, headlines, lines, philanthropically, read between the lines
«Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.»
Author: St. Thomas Aquinas
| About:
Charity,
Peace
| Keywords:
charity, directly, indirectly, in so far, notion, removes
«Peace, like charity, begins at home»
«Nothing is more patent, indeed, than the fact that charity merely converts the unfit - who, in the course of nature, would soon die out and so cease to encumber the earth - into parasites - who live on indefinitely, a nuisance and a burden to their b»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Charity
| Keywords:
converts, die out, encumber, encumbered, encumbering, encumbers, indefinitely, patent, unfit
«Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| About:
Belief,
Charity,
Soul
| Keywords:
associate, charity, providence, reduce
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