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“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)

“The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.”

Men Feelings Pain He Man Charity Anguish

Book:This Business of Living

Source: This Business of Living

“If there be a pleasure on earth which angels cannot enjoy, and which they might almost envy man the possession of, it is the power of relieving distress--if there be a pain which devils might pity man for enduring, it is the death-bed reflection that we have possessed the power of doing good, but that we have abused and perverted it to purposes of ill.”

Ifs Men Might Earth Pain Purpose Enjoy Pleasure Bed Reflection Devil Angel Charity Endure Ill Possession Envy Pity Possessed Distress Doing Good Death Bed

Book:L.P.

Source: L.P.

“The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in his own body. Its life, to a great extent, is a mere reflex of the lives of others. It migrates into their bodies, and identifying its existence with their existence, finds its own happiness in increasing and prolonging their pleasures, in extinguishing or solacing their pains.”

Men Doe Soul Body Seems Pain Pleasure Existence Mere Charity Lives Of Others Benevolent Identifying Reflexes Migrate Prolonging

Book:Lectures and Annual Reports on Education

Source: Lectures and Annual Reports on Education

“Surrounded as we are by the wants and woes of our fellow-men, and yet given to follow our own pleasures, regardless of their pains, are we not like people sitting up with a corpse, and making merry in the house of the dead?”

People Men Want Pain Suffering House Given Pleasure Sitting Fellows Charity Selfishness Woe Fellow Man Corpses Merry Sitting Up

Book:Redburn.His First Voyage

Source: Redburn.His First Voyage

“Love should make joy; but our benevolence is unhappy. Our Sunday-schools, and churches, and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. We pain ourselves to please nobody.”

Should School Pain Joy Church Please Charity Unhappy Necks Sunday Benevolence Yoke Sunday School

Book:Essays and Lectures

Source: Essays and Lectures