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“No one has ever become poor by giving.”

“See here, if a simple act of kindness or generosity, such as buying a loaf of bread for some poor working women, can mean that wholesale death and destruction will be avoided - why, a man would be a monster who had it in his power to alleviate all that suffering yet stood by and did nothing.”

Ifs Men Mean Would Be Suffering Simple Poor Kindness Destruction Monsters Bread Generosity Buying Avoided Acts Of Kindness Alleviate Wholesale Working Women Simple Acts Of Kindness

Author:Stephen R. Lawhead

“It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness.”

Men Purpose Poor Kindness Rich Rich Man

Author:Plautus

“The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the poor. It does not even rest on the kindness of the rich to the poor. It rests on the perennial and unfailing kindness of the poor to the rich.”

Doe Character Poor Kindness Rich Modern Cruelty Commonwealth Oligarchy Modern English

Book:Heretics

Source: Heretics

“Once you are thought selfish, not only are you forgiven a life designed mainly to suit yourself, which in anyone else would appear monstrous, but if an impulse to generosity should by chance overpower you, you will get five times the credit of some poor selfless soul who has been oozing kindness for years.”

Ifs Should Years Has Beens Soul Chance Poor Kindness Five Credit Selfish Suits Generosity Selfishness Impulse Selfless Forgiven Monstrous

Author:Carolyn Heilbrun

“This world is not for the poor, nor the next for the unkind.”

World Next Poor Kindness This World Unkind

Author:Thiruvalluvar

“I draw a lot from Buddhism, which focuses on compassion and kindness, loving kindness, as they call it, but rejects empathy because it's a poor moral guide. And I think there's a lot of evidence suggesting that they're right.”

Thinking Poor Compassion Moral Kindness Buddhism Empathy Draws Evidence Guides Rejects Suggesting Kindness And Compassion Loving Kindness

Author:Paul Bloom

“Charity is no substitute for justice. If we never challenge a social order that allows some to accumulate wealth--even if they decide to help the less fortunate--while others are short-changed, then even acts of kindness end up supporting unjust arrangements. We must never ignore the injustices that make charity necessary, or the inequalities that make it possible.”

“I choose kindness... I will be kind to the poor, for they are alone. Kind to the rich, for they are afraid. And kind to the unkind, for such is how God has treated me”

Kind Poor Compassion Kindness Rich Treated Be Kind Unkind Kindness And Compassion

Book:You Changed My Life

Source: You Changed My Life

“Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.”

Trying Helping Simple Poor Kindness Right Now Snow Clothings Providing Shelter

Author:Tony Snow

“There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.”

People Suffering Poor Poverty Kindness Ordinary Hunger Bread Love And Kindness Thoughtfulness Goodness And Kindness Hunger For Love

Book:Mother Teresa: Essential Writings

Source: Mother Teresa: Essential Writings

“When your little child tells a lie, do not rush at him as though the world were about to go into bankruptcy. Be honest with him. A tyrant father will have liars for his children; do you know that? A lie is born of tyranny upon the one hand and weakness upon the other, and when you rush at a poor little boy with a club in your hand, of course he lies.”

Source: Ingersoll: Fifty Great Selections, Lectures, Tributes, After Dinner Speeches and Essays, Carefully Selected from the Twelve Volume Dresden Edition of Colonel Ingersoll's Complete Works

“If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.”

Ifs Would Be Poor Kindness Love And Kindness Kindness And Compassion Chakra

Author:Antonio Porchia

“Let us remember the poor, and not forget kindness to strangers; above all, let us love God with all our soul, and might, and strength, and our neighbour as ourselves.”

Soul Might Remember Forget Poor Christianity Kindness Stranger God Love Neighbour

Author:Athanasius of Alexandria

“How can we give to the Lord? What shall we give to him? Every kind word to our own, every help given them, is as a gift to God, whose chief concern is the welfare of his children. Every gentle deed to our neighbor, every kindness to the poor and suffering, is a gift to the Lord, before whom all mankind are equal. Every conformity to the Lord's plan of salvation-and this is of first importance-is a direct gift to God, for thereby we fit ourselves more nearly for our divinely planned destiny.”

“Widen your shriveled heart, make the interests of others your own and serve them as much as you can by sympathy, kindness, presents and so forth. So long as one enjoys the things of this world and has needs and wants, it is necessary to minister to the needs of one's fellow men. Otherwise one cannot be called a human being. Whenever you have the opportunity, give to the poor, feed the hungry, nurse the sick - do service as a religious duty and you will come to know by direct perception that the person served, the one who serves and the act of service are separate only in appearance.”

“There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives--the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them. ---Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart. Speak tenderly to them. Let there be kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile, in the warmth of your greeting. Always have a cheerful smile. Don't only give your care, but give your heart as well.”

“And many a poor man that has roved Loved and thought himself beloved From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.”

Men Love Eye Poor Kindness Glad Beloved His Eyes Poor Man

Book:Later Poems

Source: Later Poems