Bishops Quote by Victor Hugo Download Open image “The first proof of charity in a priest, especially a bishop, is poverty.” — Victor Hugo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bishops Charity Firsts Generosity Poverty Priests Proof
“We had a bishop this morning and what do you think he said? "The most beneficent promise made us in the Bible is this,'The poor ye have always with you.' They were put here in order to keep us charitable." The poor, please observe, being a sort of useful domestic animal. If I hadn't grown into such a perfect lady,… — Jean Webster Copy Share
On social welfare the Church does so much good around the world - nuns running schools and homeless shelters, priests ministering to people who… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Since the Church is to be servant to the poor, it is our fault if that wealth is not channeled to help the poor… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
The real proof of spiritual poverty is to patiently endure the loss of worldly goods and without any regret when it pleases our heavenly… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Though the world may often appear to be more charitable than the church, it is crucial to remember that, for the church, the care… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Money must serve, not rule! The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but he is obliged in the name of Christ to remind… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Churches know more about poverty than any government will ever know, because we're dealing with the poor every day. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
The priest invents and encourages every kind of suffering and distress so that man may not have the opportunity to become scientific, which requires… — Robert Sheaffer Copy Share Image
“There is still a certain grace in a dead festival. It has been happy.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“First I loved women, then animals, and now I love stones. They're just as amusing as women and animals and they're much less trecherous.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have finished your daily task, go to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“For love is like a tree; it grows of itself; it send its roots deep into our being, and often continues to grow green… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Loving in ignorance, she loved with all the more passion. She did not know whether it was good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the hard life which the Little Brothers lived at the Portiuncula, without comforts,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My last two characters have been Denethor and Walter Bishop. Both will be hard acts to follow. That sits in the hands of my… — John Noble Copy Share Image
The one thing that the Catholic Church desires, and that I seek as Bishop of Rome, “the Church which presides in charity”, is communion… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I don't see Jesus as rescuing the fallen; I see Jesus as expanding the potential of life. The primary reason the old idea of… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
We want to create, never mind the leaders or the bishops or chief rabbis or imams, or Popes. We want to create a grassroots… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Only a good bishop can be sacrificed, a bad bishop can only be lost. — Yuri Razuvaev Copy Share Image
Archbishop Milingo is a good Bishop and his contention that there are satanists in Rome is completely correct. Anybody who is acquainted with the… — Malachi Martin Copy Share Image
Inherent in the ordination to be bishop is both the right and the obligation to be directed by inspiration. — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Our bishops storehouses are not intended to stock enough commodities to care for all the members of the Church. Storehouses are only established to… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
