If I murmur in the least at affliction, if I am in any way uncharitable, if I revenge my own case, if I do anything purely to please myself or omit anything because it is a great denial, if I trust myself, if I take any praise for any good which Christ does by me, or if I am in any way proud, I shall act as my own and not God’s.
Jonathan EdwardsTags: christianity revenge complain charity
The principle of neighborhood at home always implies the principle of charity abroad. (pg. 260, The Idea of a Local Economy)
Wendell BerryCharity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it.
Wendell BerryTags: love god charity creator
the holy art of “giving for Jesus’ sake” ought to be much more strongly developed among us Christians. Never forget that all state relief for the poor is a blot on the honor of your savior. The fact that the government needs a safety net to catch those who would slip between the cracks of our economic system is evidence that I have failed to do God’s work. The government cannot take the place of Christian charity. A loving embrace isn’t given with food stamps. The care of a community isn’t provided with government housing. The face of our Creator can’t be seen on a welfare voucher. What the poor need is not another government program; what they need is for Christians like me to honor our savior.
Abraham KuyperTags: christianity poverty christian-behavior charity
God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that He may love and perfect them. He creates the universe, already foreseeing - or should we say "seeing"? there are no tenses in God - the buzzing cloud of flies about the cross, the flayed back pressed against the uneven stake, the nails driven through the mesial nerves, the repeated incipient suffocation as the body droops, the repeated torture of back and arms as it is time after time, for breath's sake, hitched up. If I may dare the biological image, God is a "host" who deliberately creates His own parasites; causes us to be that we may exploit and "take advantage of" Him. Herein is love. This is the diagram of Love Himself, the inventor of all loves.
C.S. LewisTags: love god cross charity christ
Give, but give until it hurts.
Mother TeresaTags: compassion charity giving helping-others
Very well. He'd lighten up. As a matter of fact, he felt as light as the bubbly froth that flew from the lips of the waves. Whatever else his long, unprecedented life might have been, it had been fun. Fun! If others should find that appraisal shallow, frivolous, so be it. To him, it seemed now to largely have been some form of play. And he vowed that in the future he would strive to keep that sense of play more in mind, for he'd grown convinced that play--more than piety, more than charity or vigilance--was what allowed human beings to transcend evil.
Tom RobbinsTags: life evil fun play transcendence charity vigilance piety
Charity is one of those remarkable words that helps to identify the fault lines of a culture.
Janet PoppendieckTags: culture charity social-inequality
Charity erodes the cultural prerequisites for a vigorous democracy.
Janet PoppendieckTags: democracy inequality charity
We believe that only government has the capacity--not to mention the political and moral responsibility--to promote the general welfare.
Father Kramer as quoted in Sweet Charity?
Tags: charity general-welfare government-programs public-service moral-responsibility
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