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"There were two classes of charitable people: one, the people who did a little and made a great deal of noise; the other, the people who did a great deal and made no noise at all."
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"The real challenge of compassion, nonviolence and mindfulness is to love in adverse situation."
"The difficulties of people should be our business."
"So bring me this man, trembling and shivering from head to foot; let me fall into his arms or down at his knees; he will weep and we shall weep, he will be eloquent and I shall be comforted, and my heart shall melt into his, he will take my soul, and I his God.But what is this kindly old gentleman to me? And what am I to him? Just one more member of the race of unfortunates, one more shade to go with the many he has seen, one more figure to add to his total of executions."
"When you have reached your own room, be kind to those who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall. If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house."
"Demonstrate love to the people first, and then teach them to observe biblical principles."
"One cannot speak about love for God and neighbor without having a standard of communication, respect, honor, and without understanding how precious every human being is."
"Find out the needs of the people you are ministering to and help them overcome their fears."
"Love is not only one of the greatest blessings in your personal life, but when it is extended professionally, the possibilities are endless."
"To demonstrate the deeds of the kingdom is to love and understand the deeds."
"I never heard weeping like that before or after; not from a child, nor a man wounded in the palm, nor a tortured man, nor a girl dragged off to slavery from a taken city. If you heard the woman you most hate in the world weep so, you would go to comfort her. You would fight your way through fire and spears to reach her. And I knew who wept, and what had been done to her, and who had done it."
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"How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious death? Where are the graces of my soul? Where are the sentiments of my heart? What have you done, oh, Father, What have you done with the garden that should have bloomed once, in this great wilderness here? Said louisa as she touched her heart."
"Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!"
"I only hope, for the sake of the rising male sex generally, that you may be found in as vulnerable and soft-hearted a mood by the first eligible young fellow who appeals to your compassion."
"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."
"There never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death."
"The girl's life had been squandered in the streets, and among the most noisome of the stews and dens of London, but there was something of the woman's original nature left in her still; and when she heard a light step approaching the door opposite to that by which she had entered, and thought of the wide contrast which the small room would in another moment contain, she felt burdened with the sense of her own deep shame: and shrunk as though she could scarcely bear the presence of her with whom she had sought this interview."
"On this matter I'm inclined to agree with the French, who gaze upon any personal dietary prohibition as bad manners."
"Why look'e, young gentleman," said Toby, "when a man keeps himself so very ex-clusive as I have done, and by that means has a snug house over his head with nobody a-prying and smelling about it, it's rather a starling thing to have the honour of a wisit from a young gentleman (however respectable and pleasant a person he may be to play cards with at conweniency) circumstanced as you are."
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