Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883 It was not the pleasant things in the world that came from the devil, and the dreary things from God! It was "sin brought death into the world and all our woe"; as the sin vanishes the woe will vanish too. God Himself is the ever-blessed God. He dwells in the light of joy as well as of purity, and instead of becoming more like Him as we become more miserable, and as all the brightness and glory of life are extinguished, we become more like God as our blessedness becomes more complete. The great Christian graces are radiant with happiness. Faith, hope, charity, there is no sadness in them; and if penitence makes the heart sad, penitence belongs to the sinner, not to the saint.
Since you have forsaken the world and turned wholly to God, you are symbolically dead in the eyes of men; therefore, let your heart be dead to all earthly affections and concerns, and wholly devoted to our Lord Jesus Christ. For you must be well aware that if we make an outward show of conversion to God without giving Him our hearts, it is only a shadow and pretence of virtue, and no true conversion. Any man or woman who neglects to maintain inward vigilance, and only makes an outward show of holiness in dress, speech, and behavior, is a wretched creature. For they watch the doings of other people and criticize their faults, imagining themselves to be something when in reality they are nothing. In this way they deceive themselves. Be careful to avoid this, and devote yourself inwardly to His likeness by humility, charity, and other spiritual virtues. In this way you will be truly converted to God.
In essentials, unity; in nonessentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
O chime of sweet Saint Charity, Peal soon that Easter morn When Christ for all shall risen be, And in all hearts new-born! That Pentecost when utterance clear To all men shall be given, When all shall say My Brother here, And hear My Son in heaven!
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. -Bob Hope.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Did Charity prevail, the press would prove A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love.
Knowledge bloweth up, but charity buildeth up.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
Peace, like charity, begins at home.
Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Alas! for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun. Oh! it was pitiful! Near a whole city full, Home had she none.
All zeal for a reform, that gives offence To peace and charity, is mere pretence.
In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.
Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.
Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because this best serves their own interests. Neither love nor charity nor any other sympathetic sentiments but rightly understood selfishness is what originally impelled man to adjust himself to the requirements of society, to respect the rights and freedoms of his fellow men and to substitute peaceful collaboration for enmity and conflict.
If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
Our lady of the twilight She hath such gentle hands, So lovely are the gifts she brings From out of the sunset-lands, So bountiful, so merciful, So sweet of soul is she; And over all the world she draws Her cloak of charity.
In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.
The hushed winds wail with feeble moan Like infant charity.