"The fruits of charity are joy, peace,..." - Quote by Saint Augustine
The fruits of charity are joy, peace, and mercy; charity demands beneficence and fraternal correction; it is benevolence; it fosters reciprocity and remains disinterested and generous; it is friendship and communion: Love is itself the fulfillment of all our works. There is the goal; that is why we run: we run toward it, and once we reach it, in it we shall find rest.
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“The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source.”
“Every time you think of doing some charity, you think there is some beggar to take your charity. If you say, "O Lord, let the world be full of charitable people!" - you mean, let the world be full of beggars also. Let the world be full of good works - let the world be full of misery. This is out-and-out slavishness!”
“Mankind was my business... charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.”
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“I love bald men. Just because you've lost your fuzz don't mean you ain't a peach.”
“I see my beauty in you.”
“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.”