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Quotes related to Proverbs 19:17
He who is daily living in harshness, impurity, or unhappiness is day by day adding to the sum of the world's misery; whereas he who continually lives in goodwill, and does not depart from happiness, is day by day increasing the sum of the world's happiness, and this independently of any religious beliefs which these may or may not hold.
— James Allen
Let the rich cease to despise the poor, and the poor to condemn the rich; let the greedy learn how to give, and the lustful how to grow pure; let the partisan cease from strife, and the uncharitable begin to forgive; let the envious endeavor to rejoice with others, and the slanderers grow ashamed of their conduct. Let men and women take this course, and, lo! the Golden Age is at hand. He, therefore, who purifies his own heart is the world's greatest benefactor.
— James Allen
When you have enough understanding and compassion in you, then that amount of understanding and compassion will try to express itself in action. And your practice should help you to cultivate more understanding and compassion.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
f you are too good to look after God's trash, you are not good enough to look after God's treasure.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
— Albert Schweitzer
William Perkins said, "The end of a man's calling is not to gather riches for himself…but to serve God in the serving of man, and in the seeking the good of all men.
— Leland Ryken
If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.
— Aristotle
Our ministry also supports orphanages in the U.S. and overseas, thousands of poor children in Latin America, drug centers for addicted men, and a drug center in Israel.
— David Wilkerson
If he shall not lose his reward, who gives a cup of cold water to his thirst neighbor, what will not be the reward for those who, by putting good books into the hands of those neighbors, open to them the fountains of eternal life?"
— Thomas a Kempis
Man should not consider his material possessions as his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need
— St. Thomas Aquinas