Charity

Sobre Charity

“No amount of money given in charity, nothing but the abandonment of this hateful trade, can atone for this great sin against God, Israel and Humanity.”
— Hermann Adler, quoted in Joseph H. Hertz, The Pentateuch and Haftorahs (One-volume edition), p. 849
“Charity is the soul of the holiness to which all are called.”
— Catechism of the Catholic Church, n. 826.
“I do not see any difference between a gift to keep in repair what is called "God's house" and a gift to keep in repair the churchyard round it, which is often called "God's acre."”
— North, J., In re Vaughan, Vaughan v. Thomas (1886), L. R. 33 C. D. 192; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 26.
“It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.”
— Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Ch. 4
“Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity.”
— Robert Southey, Soldier's Wife.
“Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others as by self-examination thoroughly to know our own.”
— François Fénelon, p. 48.

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