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Charity sees the need, not the cause.
Charity sees the need, not the cause.
Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you read more
Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
No farther seek his merits to disclose,
Or draw his frailties from their dread abode
(There they read more
No farther seek his merits to disclose,
Or draw his frailties from their dread abode
(There they alike in trembling hope repose),
The bosom of his Father and his God.
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.
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity
vaulteth not itself, is not puffed up.
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity
vaulteth not itself, is not puffed up.
All crush'd and stone-cast in behaviour,
She stood as a marble would stand,
Then the Saviour bent read more
All crush'd and stone-cast in behaviour,
She stood as a marble would stand,
Then the Saviour bent down, and the Saviour
In silence wrote on in the sand.
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
When your courtyard twists, do not pour the water abroad.
When your courtyard twists, do not pour the water abroad.
The living need charity more than the dead.
The living need charity more than the dead.