“Around the child bend all the threeSweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity.Around the man bend other faces;Pride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces.” MenChildrenFacesGraceHe ManPrideCharityEnvyMaliceFaith Hope Book:Dry Sticks, Fagoted Source: Dry Sticks, Fagoted
“The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.” MenFeelingsPainHe ManCharityAnguish Book:This Business of Living Source: This Business of Living
“In giving of thy alms, inquire not so much into the person, as his necessity. God looks not so much upon the merits of him that requires, as into the manner of him that relieves; if the man deserve not, thou hast given it to humanity.” IfsMenGivingLooksPersonsHumanityGivenHe ManDeserveCharityMeritAlms Author:Francis Quarles
“The great, the rich, the powerful, too often bestow their favours upon their inferiors in the manner they bestow their scraps upontheir dogs, so as neither to oblige man nor dogs. It is no wonder if favours, benefits, and even charities thus bestowed ungraciously, should be as coldly and faintly acknowledged.” IfsMenShouldPowerfulWonderRichDogHe ManGratitudeBenefitsCharityInferiorsFavourScrap Author:Lord Chesterfield
“The territorial aristocracy of former ages was either bound by law, or thought itself bound by usage, to come to the relief of its serving-men and to relieve their distresses. But the manufacturing aristocracy of our age first impoverishes and debases the men who serve it and then abandons them to be supported by the charity of the public.” MenFirstsAgeLawHe ManCharityBoundsFormerReliefAbandonServingDistressManufacturingAristocracyUsageTerritorial Author:Alexis de Tocqueville
“My personal attitude toward atheists is the same attitude that I have toward Christians, and would be governed by a very orthodox text: "By their fruits shall ye know them." I wouldn't judge a man by the presuppositions of his life, but only by the fruits of his life. And the fruits - the relevant fruits - are, I'd say, a sense of charity, a sense of proportion, a sense of justice. And whether the man is an atheist or a Christian, I would judge him by his fruits, and I have therefore many agnostic friends.” KnowsMenWould BeChristianJusticeAttitudeHe ManJudgingCharityFruitAtheistProportionOrthodoxRelevantAgnostic Author:Reinhold Niebuhr