Charity Quote by Orville Dewey Download Open image “Truth is the root of all the charities.” — Orville Dewey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Charity Generosity Home Roots Truth Truth is
The love of truth is the stimulus to all noble conversation. This is the root of all the charities. The tree which springs from… — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
Only in truth does charity shine forth, only in truth can charity be authentically lived. Truth is the light that gives meaning and value to charity. That light is both the light of reason and the light of faith, through which the intellect attains to the natural and supernatural truth of charity: it grasps its meaning as gift, acceptance, and… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share
True charity consists in doing good to those who do us evil, and in thus winning them over. — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Charity must become a fundamental state of mind and heart that guides us in all we do. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense. — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Charity is false, futile, and poisonous when offered as a substitute for justice. — Henry George Copy Share Image
“True and genuine charity is no lesse necessary to Salvation for all Churches, and members of Christian Churches, than the true and entire profession… — John Davenant Copy Share Image
Men cannot labor on always. They must have intervals of relaxation. They cannot sleep through these intervals. What are they to do? Why, if… — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
There is nothing to do with men [and women] but to love them; to contemplate their virtues with admiration, their faults with pity and… — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
The love of truth is the stimulus to all noble conversation. This is the root of all the charities. The tree which springs from… — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
What is there glorious in the world, that is not the product of labor, either of the body or of the mind? — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
A man seems never to know what anything means till he has lost it; and this I suppose is the reason why losses--vanishing away… — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
Our hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken from sin, to constitute repentance. — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment. — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
The taxes of government are heavy enough, but not so heavy as the taxes we lay upon ourselves. — Orville Dewey 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
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
Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens. — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity,… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
“It takes a female to have a baby, It takes a woman to raise a child, It takes a mother to raise them correctly,… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I own about 300 pairs of shoes. When I start to go over 300, I have mini-sales from my closet and give the money… — Stacy London Copy Share Image