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True Charity, a plant divinely nurs'd.
True Charity, a plant divinely nurs'd.
True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense
True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense
The living need charity more than the dead.
The living need charity more than the dead.
Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
Charity begins at home.
[Lat., Proximus sum egomet mihi.]
Charity begins at home.
[Lat., Proximus sum egomet mihi.]
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the
desire of knowledge in excess caused man read more
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the
desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in charity
there is no excess, neither can angel or man come in danger by
it.
The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in read more
The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the read more
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work we are in