Acts Of Charity Quotes - Page 2

• Never do I close my door behind me without being conscious that I am carrying out an act of charity towards myself.

  Peter Høeg

  Being Alone, Doors, Charity

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• The smallest act of charity shall stand us in great stead.

  Francis Atterbury

  Charity, Smallest

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• The proclamation of the Gospel is destined primarily to the poor, to those who often lack the essentials for a decent life. The good news is first announced to them, that God loves them before all others and comes to visit them through the acts of charity that the disciples of Christ carry out in his name.

  Pope Francis

  Names, Essentials, News

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• A wise man should not divulge the formula of a medicine which he has well prepared; an act of charity which he has performed; domestic conflicts; private affairs with his wife; poorly prepared food he may have been offered; or slang he may have heard.

  Chanakya

  Wise, Men, Medicine

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• The bread which you use is the bread of the hungry; the garment hanging in your wardrobe is the garment of him who is naked; the shoes you do not wear are the shoes of the one who is barefoot; the acts of charity that you do not perform are so many injustices that you commit.

  Saint Basil

  Shoes, Saint, Naked

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• I choose not to believe in any gods as an act of charity," Marcus said. "Charity toward whom?" "Toward the gods. Seems rude to think they couldn't make a world better than this.

  Daniel Abraham

  Believe, Thinking, Rude

  Daniel Abraham (2011). “The Dragon's Path: Book 1 of The Dagger and the Coin”, p.104, Hachette UK

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• After Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, the belief in decent housing as a political right or social obligation was supplanted in the U.S. by the notion that suitable shelter should be an act of charity.

  Martin Filler

  Political, Charity, Shelter

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• Both fact and logic seem to me to support the view that savings invested in privately owned economic tools of production amount to an act of charity. And further, I believe it to be - as a type - the greatest economic charity of all.

  F. A. Harper

  Believe, Views, Support

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• Remember to set apart at least one hour every day to do some service for others. While the food we eat nurtures our bodies, it is what we give in charity that nurtures our souls. If time is not available daily, reserve at least a few hours every week for some worthwhile act of charity.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Giving, Soul, Charity

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• In every human act of charity, something larger, greater, divine has come down to visit the act.

  Geoffrey Wood

  Charity, Divine, Humans

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• There is no act of charity that is not accompanied by justice or that permits us to do more than we reasonably can.

  Vincent de Paul

  Justice, Charity, Permit

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”

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• Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of any possible beneficiary. Yet we are taught to admire the second-hander who dispenses gifts he has not produced above the man who made the gifts possible. We praise an act of charity. We shrug at an act of achievement.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Liberty, Needs

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.74, Penguin

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• U.S. commitment to NATO and our commitments our European partners is not an act of charity. It's not a gift that we give to our European partners. It's actually part of our security, as well, and their security is our security.

  Derek Chollet

  Commitment, Giving, Charity

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• It is undeniable that every human being is entitled to living space, daily bread, and the protection of the law as a common birthright; these are fundamentals and should not be handed out as an act of charity.

  Alfred Delp

  Law, Space, Fundamentals

  Alfred Delp (1963). “Prison meditations of Father Alfred Delp”, Palm Publications

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• The revolution and women's liberation go together. We do not talk of women's emancipation as an act of charity or out of a surge of human compassion. It is a basic necessity for the revolution to triumph. Women hold up the other half of the sky.

  Thomas Sankara

  Compassion, Sky, Together

  Thomas Sankara (2007). “We are Heirs of the World's Revolutions: Speeches from the Burkina Faso Revolution, 1983-87”, Pathfinder Press

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• Every act of charity, every thought of sympathy, every action of help, every good deed, is taking so much of self-importance away from our little selves and making us think of ourselves as the lowest and the least, and, therefore, it is all good. Here we find that Jnâna, Bhakti, and Karma - all come to one point.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Karma, Thinking, Self

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.83, Manonmani Publishers

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• By our little acts of charity practiced in the shade we convert souls far away, we help missionaries, we win for them abundant alms; and by that means build actual dwellings spiritual and material for our Eucharistic Lord.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Spiritual, Mean, Winning

  St. Therese of Lisieux (1915). “Thoughts of Saint Thérèse”, p.20, TAN Books

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• International solidarity is not an act of charity: It is an act of unity between allies fighting on different terrains toward the same objective. The foremost of these objectives is to aid the development of humanity to the highest level possible.

  Samora Machel

  Fighting, Humanity, Unity

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