helping

I have as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.

And they said one to another We are verily guilty concerning our brother in that we saw the anguish of his soul when he besought us and we would not hear.

The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee or in his soul.

Cruelty is the only sin.

One filled with joy preaches without preaching.

In helping others we shall help ourselves for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.

The principle was right there-you couldn't miss it. The more you did for your customers the more they did for us.

Charity begins at home and usually stays there.

There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on one doesn't die and the only thing that one can do is to fill one's mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It doesn't bring immediate peace but it brings the dawn nearer.

A cup that is already full cannot have more added to it. In order to receive the further good to which we are entitled we must give of that which we have.

The most notable fact that culture imprints on women is the sense of our limits. The most important thing one woman can do for another is to illuminate and expand her sense of actual possibilities.

Pity costs nothing and ain't worth nothing.

"Honesty" without compassion and understanding is not honesty but subtle hostility.

Theories and goals of education don't matter a whit if you do not consider your students to be human beings.

Children are forced to live very rapidly in order to live at all. They are given only a few years in which to learn hundreds of thousands of things about life and the planet and themselves.

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.

Really listening and suspending one's own judgment is necessary in order to understand other people on their own terms. As we have noted this is a process that requires trust and builds trust.

Purposeful giving is not as apt to deplete one's resources it belongs to that natural order of giving that seems to renew itself even in the act of depletion.