No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
Though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
Charity suffereth long and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
True Charity, a plant divinely nurs'd.
No farther seek his merits to disclose,
Or draw his frailties from their dread abode
(There they alike in trembling hope repose),
The bosom of his Father and his God.
When your courtyard twists, do not pour the water abroad.
Meek and lowly, pure and holy,
Chief among the "blessed three."
In silence, * * *
Steals on soft-handed Charity,
Tempering her gifts, that seem so free,
By time and place,
Till not a woe the bleak world see,
But finds her grace.
He is truly great who hath a great charity.
In necessasariis, unitas; In dubiis, libertas; in
omnibus, caritas.
In things essential, unity; in doubtful,
liberty; in all things, charity.
Rupertus Meldenius. So attributed by
Canon Farrar at Croyden Church Congress, 1877. Also attributed to Melancthon.
Quoted as "A gude saying o' auld Mr.
Guthrie" in A Crack aboot the Kirk, appended to Memoirs of Norman Maclood,
D.D. Vol. I. P. 340.
All crush'd and stone-cast in behaviour,
She stood as a marble would stand,
Then the Saviour bent down, and the Saviour
In silence wrote on in the sand.
Joaquin Midler—Charity.
Charity bien ordonn^ commence par soy m&ne.
Charity well directed should begin at home.
Montluc—La ComMie de Proverbes. Act III.
Sc. 7.
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I Peter. IV. 8.
In Faith and Hope the world will disagree,
But all mankind's concern is charity.
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Soft peace she brings, wherever she arrives:
She builds our quiet, as she forms our lives:
Lays the rough paths of peevish Nature even,
And opens in each heart a little Heaven.
Prior—Charity.
Charity itself fulfills the law,
And who can sever love from charity?
Love's Labour's Lost. Act IV. Sc. 3. L. 364.
Charity,
Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.
Richard III. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 68.
I believe there is no sentiment he has such faith
in as that "charity begins at home"
And his, I presume, is of that domestic sort
which never stirs abroad at all.
Sheridan—School for Scandal. Act. V. Sc. 1.
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And mostly ends where it begins.
Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity.
Proximus sum egomet mihi.
Charity begins at home. (Free trans.)
Terence—Andria. Act IV. Sc. 1. 12. Greek
from Menander. See note to Andria. Act
II. Sc. 5. 16. (Valpy'sed.)
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I Timothy. V. 4.
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CHASE, THE
He thought at heart like courtly Chesterfield,
Who, after a long chase o'er hills, dales, bushes,
And what not, though he rode beyond all price,
Ask'd next day, "if men ever hunted twice?"
Byron—Don Juan. Canto XIV. St. 35.
They sought it with thimbles, they sought it
with care;
They pursued it with forks and hope;
They threatened its life with a railway-share;
They charmed it with smiles and soap.
Lewis Carroll—Hunting of the Snark. Fit 5.
