"It is by desiring to grow in love that we receive the Holy Spirit, and the thirst for more charity is the effect of this more abundant reception."
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"Charity is great, but the moment you say it is all, you run the risk of running into materialism."
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"We hear all around us about practical religion, and analysing all that, we find that it can be brought down to one conception - charity to our fellow beings."
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"A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen."
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"He who regards the world as he does the fortune of his own body can govern the world. He who loves the world as he does his own body can be entrusted with the world."
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"While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all."
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"Charity creates a multitude of sins."
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"The living need charity more than the dead."
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"...a young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity."
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"Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself."
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"Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves."
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"By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to those we give, to Jove is lent."
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"Scatter abroad what you have already amassed rather than pile up new wealth."
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"Mankind was my business... charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business."
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"The spread of online information isn't just good for charities. It's also good for donors. You can go to a site like Charity Navigator, which evaluates nonprofits on their financial health as well as the amount of information they share about their work."
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"Whilst in speaking of human things, we say that it is necessary to know them before we love can them. The saints on the contrary say in speaking of divine things that it is necessary to love them in order to know them, and that we only enter truth through charity."
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"Charity is suppose to cover up for a multitude of sins."
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"Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself."
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"Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity."
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"God bless thee; and put meekness in thy breast, Love, charity, obedience, and true duty!"
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