charity

It is not what you leave to your children that matters, but what you leave in them.

If they had had a different neighbour, one less sel-absorbed and more concerned for others, a man of normal, charitable instincts, their desperate state would not have gone unnoticed, their distress-signals would have been heard, and perhaps they would have been rescued by now. Certainly they appeared utterly depraved, corrupt, vile and odious; but it is rare for those who have sunk so low not to be degraded in the process, and there comes a point, moreover, where the unfortunate and the infamous are grouped together, merged in a single, fateful world. They are les misérables - the outcasts, the underdogs. And who is to blame? Is it not the most fallen who have most need for charity?

Be a gift, a light, a blessing as far as the eye can see to answer a call as well as a genuine, compassionate heart can reach.

It is not the number of prayers that will give you happiness, but the number you answer for another person.

Success follows those who champion a cause greater than themselves.

Kindness is still the best antidote.

We overcome the evil in the world by the charity and compassion of God, and in so doing we drive all evil out of our own hearts. The evil that is in us is more than moral. There is a psychological evil, the distortion caused by selfishness and sin. Good moral intentions are enough to correct what is formally bad in our moral acts. But in order that our charity may heal the wounds of sin in our whole soul it must reach down into the furthest depths of our humanity, cleaning out all the infection of anxiety and false guilt that spring from pride and fear, releasing the good that has been held back by suspicion and prejudice and self-conceit. Everything in our nature must find its right place in the life of charity, so that the whole man may be lifted up to God, that the entire person may be sanctified and not only the intentions of his will.

Nowhere in the bible did it say, __nly show compassion and empathy to those you can trust._ If we did that, we would be burying homeless people every day.

When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the edges of your field or pick the fallen fruit. Leave these for the poor and the stranger.

The greatest gift you can give is your time. _Not money, not items, not food, not pretty cards with handwritten sentiment, but time. _People need your presence. _The way you can help a soul the most is to simply be there.

No single bad person regards themselves as a bad person.

The pleasure or the benefit that the object of our deed derives from it is every now and then greater or even more important than the one we derive from the deed.

The house that does not comfort the needy is worthy of naught but destruction.

The only thing I hate about good people is that they like making their being good people bad people__ problem.

To label someone as selfless is symptomatic of having bought the preposterous claim that a human being can have great concern for other human beings and little concern for themselves, or that, when taken to extremes, a human being can have great concern for other human beings and absolutely no concern for themselves.

Pour God's love out of you in pitcher fulls, not thimbles.

Life is too short, and sometimes brutal, and in the end we have only each other... Nothing else matters.

Every single good person is a good person for their own sake, not for the sake of humanity, not even for the sake of another human being.