While the word charity connotes a single act of giving, justice speaks to right living, of aligning oneself with the world in a way that sustains rather than exploits the rest of creation.
It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
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Mother Teresa
Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.
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Mother Teresa
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.
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Horace Mann
Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power.
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Marcus Aurelius
Who really owns the Earth?Corporations? Governments?Charity Organizations?Or...Should it be the people? You decide!
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Anthony T. Hincks
More Quotes By Rachel Held Evans
Like all who search for truth out of fear, I desperately wanted someone else to tell me exactly what to do.
God's ways are higher than our ways not because he is less compassionate than we are but because he is more compassionate than we can ever imagine.
What a comfort to know that God is a poet.
Caring for the poor, resting on the Sabbath, showing hospitality and keeping the home–these are important things that can lead us to God, but God is not contained in them.
(About changing faith) At our best, Christians embrace it, leaving enough space within orthodoxy for God to surprise us every now and then.
