A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.
Charity is to will and do what is just and right in every transaction.
We are responsible for the world in which we find ourselves, if only because we are the only sentient force which can change it.
I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.
Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues.
Charity begins at home.
You always enter God's hospital as a charity patient. You can't pay your way.
I definitely only want to do charity work that I'm hands-on involved in. I don't want to get a dress on and go to a stupid event.
If any Muslim plants any plant and a human being or an animal eats of it, he will be rewarded as if he had given that much in charity.
Shockingly, the Bidens donated under $1,000 to all charities combined every year for the ten years prior to 2008.
There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge.
My grandmother always said, 'when you receive a paycheck, you always have to put a certain amount to your savings, and 10 percent right away to charity. '
All the fruits of the Spirit which we are to lay weight upon as evidential of grace, are summed up in charity, or Christian love; because this is the sum of all grace. And the only way, therefore, in which any can know their good estate, is by discerning the exercises of this divine charity in their hearts; for without charity, let men have what gifts you please, they are nothing.
. . . a young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. And by the grace of God, I will.
pity and charity may be at root an attempt to propitiate the dark powers that have not touched us yet.
Solidarity is not an act of charity, but mutual aid between forces fighting for the same objective.
The gospel of a God found in broken flesh, humility, and measureless charity has defeated all the old lies, rendered the ancient order visibly insufficient and even slightly absurd, and instilled in us a longing for transcendent love so deep that-if once yielded to-it will never grant us rest anywhere but in Christ.
Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own.
The curiosity of an honorable mind willingly rests there, where the love of truth does not urge it farther onward, and the love of its neighbor bids it stop; in other words, it willingly stops at the point where the interests of truth do not beckon it onward, and charity cries, Halt!