Quotations are the fundamental distillation of a writer’s life and thinking as recorded in words and phrases for posterity. Through them the reader is afforded the unique opportunity to share in the thoughts, the life and the experiences of the writer. In a special way, they offer the reader a window into the mind of the author and hopefully an inducement to read further and learn more about the author and the story he relates.


On a wider scale, they are, as William Feather wrote, “the wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages preserved into perpetuity“, and as such they are available for the enrichment and enhancement of humanity, regardless of age, sex, race, educational or economic status. They are indeed, as the Talmud states, “food for the famished”.

The collection of quotations presented in this blog, have been chosen by me because of their special impact upon me. They have been published so that you too, may experience the joy I have had over the years reading them and getting to know the authors.


I trust that you will come to know the feeling of deep satisfaction possible from reading them, searching out the author and meditating upon their meaning and their impact on your life.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

CHARITY

Charity suffers long, and is kind; Charity envies not;
Charity vaults not itself, is not puffed up. ……. I Corinthians 13:4

Charity, well directed, should begin at home. ……Joaquin Miller

Charity and personal force are the only investments worth anything. - Walt Whitman

The practice of Charity will bind us;
It will bind all men in one great brotherhood. ……Conrad Hilton

Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands. ……Joseph Addison

The smallest act of Charity shall stand us in great stead. …..Francis Atterbury

True Charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion;
it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation. ……Hosea Ballou

The Charities of life are scattered everywhere;
Enameling the vales of human beings as the flowers paint the meadows.
They are not the fruit of study, nor the privilege of refinement,
and need no trumpet in the receiver. ……Francis Beaumont

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three;
But the greatest of these is Charity. ……I Corinthians 13:13

True Charity, a plant divinely nursed. …..William Cowper

The highest exercise of Charity is charity towards the uncharitable.
…….. Joseph Stevens Buckminster

He who receives Charity, should never forget it;
he who does one, should never remember it. …….Pierre Charron

A rich man without Charity is a rogue;
and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool. …..Henry Fielding

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

In giving alms, let us rather look at the needs of the poor;
than his claim to your Charity. ………Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn

In Faith and Hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is Charity. …….Alexander Pope

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