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“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!”

Men Heart Given Heaven Christ Born Clear Son Sweet Brother Charity Saint My Brother My Son Easter Risen Utterance Pentecost Chimes

Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“In nothing does man, with his grand notions of heaven and charity, show forth his innate, low-bred, wild animalism more clearly than in his treatment of his brother beasts. From the shepherd with his lambs to the red-handed hunter, it is the same; no recognition of rights - only murder in one form or another.”

Source: John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations

“Even as in the blessed in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in the damned there will be the most perfect hate. Wherefore as the saints will rejoice in all goods, so will the damned grieve for all goods. Consequently the sight of the happiness of the saints will give them very great pain.”

Giving Pain Hate Heaven Perfect Sight Blessed Charity Saint Grieving Goods Rejoice

Book:Summa Theologica, Volume 5 (Part III, Second Section & Supplement)

Source: Summa Theologica, Volume 5 (Part III, Second Section & Supplement)

“Catholicity seized on man... and the mystics, transcending all, taught him to ascend on high with the wings of contemplation the Ladder of Jacob composed of brilliant stones, by which God descends to Earth and man ascends to Heaven, till Earth and Heaven, and God and man, burning together in a conflagration of infinite charity, are transmuted into one.”

Men Earth Together Heaven Taught Stones Infinite Wings Charity Brilliant Burning Contemplation Ladders Jacob Transcending

Author:Juan Donoso Cortes

“If I have read religious history aright, faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a sensibility to the three concords; and it is possible, thank heaven! to have very erroneous theories and very sublime feelings.”

Ifs Feelings Religion Three Found Heaven Religious Theory Direct Charity Sensibility Sublime Ratios Faith Hope Religious History Faith Hope And Charity

Book:Complete Works Of George Eliot

Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot

“Heaven be their resource who have no other but the charity of the world, the stock of which, I fear, is no way sufficient for the many great claims which are hourly made upon it.”

World Way Made Heaven Resources Claims Charity Sufficient

Book:A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy: And, Continuation of the Bramine's Journal : with Related Texts

Source: A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy: And, Continuation of the Bramine's Journal : with Related Texts

“I thank heaven I have often had it in my power to give help and relief, and this is still my greatest pleasure. If I could choose my sphere of action now, it would be that of the most simple and direct efforts of this kind.”

Ifs Giving Kind Stills Helping Would Be Action Heaven Simple Pleasure Effort Direct Charity If I Could Relief Spheres Greatest Pleasures

Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“None who has known the charity of wine, Its pity, the cool logic of its spell Will waver in his loyalty, or dwell In any heaven where the grape lacks a shrine.”

Heaven Known Logic Wine Charity Loyalty Pity Spells Grapes Shrines

Book:Ironica

Source: Ironica