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He had ceased to believe in the efficacy of alms; it was not sufficient that one should be charitabl...

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Therein lies the new hope—Justice, after eighteen hundred years of impotent Charity. Ah! in a thousa...

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If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.

I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see th...

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To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.

Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all people are recognized an...

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The worth of a gift lies as much in the way it is offered as in its intrinsic value.

Africa was full of people in need of help and there had to be a limit. You simply could not help eve...

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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

Hard times' is a phrase the English love to use, when speaking of Africa. And it is easy to forget t...

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​Whatever we are given is supposed to be given away, not kept.

Auntie An-mei had cried before she left for China, thinking she would make her brother very rich and...

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Men are like children, in that, if you spoil them, they become naughty. Therefore it is well not to ...

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It’s easier to donate a few thousands to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect o...

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It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an au...

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What a rich wisdom it would be, and how much more bountiful a harvest, to gain pleasure not from ach...

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Charity you can give even when you haven't got.

Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnecte...

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From the standpoint of the upper classes, the system had many merits. They felt that what was paid o...

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In the future society, i.e. the communist society that we want to build, we are not going to establi...

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You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know abou...

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We are oblivious to suffering. We are cheap with charity if it's not close to our home.

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Bill MaherWhen You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism

They" hate us because they feel--and "they" are not wrong--that it is within our power to do so much...

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Bill MaherWhen You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

When you judge yourself for needing help, you judge those you are helping. When you attach value to ...

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Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by ...

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Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make ev...

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I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give...

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C. S. LewisMere Christianity

We are all receiving Charity. There is something in each of us that cannot benaturally loved.

In words which can still bring tears to the eyes, St. Augustine describes the desolation into which ...

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C. S. LewisThe Four Loves

God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that He may love ...

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When two humans have lived together for many years it usually happens that each has tones of voice a...

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C. S. LewisThe Screwtape Letters

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to...

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But why do spirits walk the earth, and why do they come to me?""It is required of every man," the Gh...

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So may the New Year be a happy one to you, happy to many more whose happiness depends on you!

If I had not grown up in Nigeria- and if all I knew of Africa were of popular images- I too would th...

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While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity...

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Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged.

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Chinua AchebeAnthills of the Savannah

The rich world likes and wishes to believe that someone, somewhere, is doing something for the Third...

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Christopher HitchensThe Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.

We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity but a...

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Blood has an oder faint but distinct, of conceit and modesty, of courage and cowardice, of charity a...

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There are two things you should know about the poor: they tend to smell, and they are ungrateful.

The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving p...

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A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the o...

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One day when we came to a stop, a worker took a piece of bread out of his bag and threw it into a wa...

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In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustai...

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Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me ...

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I've a problem with the word charity because I think that NGOs, as I prefer calling them, really do ...

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The great strength she had used in the old days to conquer and subdue, to win her will and to defend...

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Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.

Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the ...

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Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent o...

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God is the comic shepherd who gets more of a kick out of that one lost sheep once he finds it again ...

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Frederick BuechnerTelling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy

Visiting the sick' is an orgasm of superiority in the contemplation of our neighbor's helplessness

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Friedrich NietzscheThus Spoke Zarathustra

Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old boo...

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We cannot expect to lift others unless we stand on higher ground ourselves.

Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need, though it be your example which leaves them f...

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I have often wondered, Sir, [. . .] to observe so few Instances of Charity among Mankind; for tho' t...

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Henry FieldingJoseph Andrews / Shamela

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

Yea, he who is a true king of men, will not say to himself, 'Lo! I am worthy to be crowned with laur...

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Howard PyleThe Story of King Arthur and His Knights

Of the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield...

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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hung...

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Really, seeing the amount we give in charity, the wonder is there are any poor left. It is a comfort...

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Jerome K. JeromeThe Angel and the Author

Organized charity scrimped and iced In the name of the cautious statistical Christ.

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

We are not to reflect on the wickedness of men but to look to the image of God in them, an image whi...

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John CalvinInstitutes of the Christian Religion

We are not to look to what men in themselves deserve but to attend to the image of God which exists ...

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John CalvinInstitutes of the Christian Religion

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionatin...

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As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and ...

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When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man...

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If I murmur in the least at affliction, if I am in any way uncharitable, if I revenge my own case, i...

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Don't judge without having heard both sides. Even persons who think themselves virtuous very easily ...

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Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.

Never exact of a friend in adversity what you would require in prosperity.

Saint Augustine … insisted that scripture taught nothing but charity. Whatever the biblical author m...

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The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love l...

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The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Rec...

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Mahatma GandhiMohandas Gandhi: Essential Writings

Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for s...

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Miranda nods, because she knows that to be true: noble people don't do things for the money, they si...

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The most powerful thought is a prayerful thought. When I'm praying for you, I am praying for my own ...

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Marianne WilliamsonTears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment

There is clearly a feeling abroad that God smiled on our beginnings, and that we should return to th...

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Marilynne RobinsonWhen I Was a Child I Read Books

Children have but little charity for each other's defects.

Fight vigorously against the wolves, but on behalf of the sheep, not against the sheep. And this you...

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Martin LutherOn Christian Liberty

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of d...

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The poor you will always have with you,' Jesus said. A warning, Emilio wondered, or an indictment?

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!

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Mary WollstonecraftA Vindication of the Rights of Woman

...a being, with a capacity of reasoning, would not have failed to discover, as his faculties unfold...

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When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.

That day, I learned that I could be a giver by simply bringing a smile to another person. The ensuin...

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