Charity Quote by Flannery O'Connor Download Open image “It is a sign of maturity... to find explanations in charity.” — Flannery O'Connor ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Charity Explanation Generosity Maturity Southern
Charity is having patience with someone who has let us down. It is resisting the impulse to become offended easily. It is accepting weaknesses… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Sometimes people give to charity because they have been persuaded to believe in a cause, sometimes just to get rid of you and sometimes… — Sara Pascoe Copy Share Image
Charity is unconscious of itself, there is no accumulation first and then distribution. It is like the flower - natural, open, spontaneous. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Charity is a cop-out so traditionally female in its apparent self-effacement that there seems resonant comfort in it. We're no longer supposed to serve… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
...perhaps charity is the kind of beauty that we comprehend the best because we miss it the most. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Organized charity itself is. . . the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives,… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
No hint of genuine charity ameliorates our vision of society, once sentimentalism has been laid side. What passes for cooperation turns out to be… — Michael Ghiselin Copy Share Image
I think often times when people choose to be part of a charity; it's usually because something is very personal. — Elizabeth Berkley Copy Share Image
It may well be a sign of the decadence of the Church and the failure of Christianity that gifts have to be coaxed out… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
Charity is not an act but a way of life, a condition of the heart. — Robert L. Millet Copy Share Image
“Wait here, wait here!" he cried and jumped up and began to run for help toward a cluster of lights he saw in the… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
... the man in the violent situation reveals those qualities least dispensable in his personality, those qualities which are all he will have to… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“I don’t know how to cure the source-itis except to tell you that I can discover a good many possible sources myself for Wise… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“For the fiction writer himself the whole story is the meaning, because it is an experience, not an abstraction.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“He felt his hunger no longer as a pain but as a tide. He felt it rising in himself through time and darkness, rising… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“There are all kinds of truth ... but behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Mrs. May winced. She thought the word Jesus should be kept inside the church building like other words inside the bedroom.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I feel that discussing story-writing in terms of plot, character, and theme is like trying to describe the expression on a face by saying… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The greatest charity you can contribute to is yourself. Instead of spending a dollar to help feed hungry children, why not spend that dollar… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I would have none of that rigid circumspect charity which is never done without scrutiny, and which always mistrusts the truth of the necessities… — Jean Baptiste Massillon Copy Share Image
I'm publicist, patron of nine charities, creative director, food consultant, recipe developer - and mum. — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead. Ask about the scale of their dreams. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Both fact and logic seem to me to support the view that savings invested in privately owned economic tools of production amount to an… — F. A. Harper Copy Share Image
I shall pray God to send charity into this hideous world, and sympathy for the weak, and love for the unhappy and unfortunate. I… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Considering community support and cost-benefit analysis, I have supported earmarks for projects of high public purpose involving such areas as higher education, alternative energy,… — Jeff Fortenberry Copy Share Image
Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens. — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
