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They were not beggars; well, not in the usual sense. They were Christians, who wanted not just my nephews' money but their souls.
Beggars can't be choosers
Be, beget, begone.
A righteous beggar is better than a proud king.
Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks.
Beggars remind us that not all miseries arise from our ideas.
A poor person feeding another poor! And this is the ultimate generosity!
The strong demand, contend, prevail; the beggar is a fool.
Fuck the begrudgers
Without hope of reward
Provide help to others.
Bear suffering alone,
And share your pleasures with beggars.
Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.
Solicitude for material things distracts the soul and divides it. The devil seizes the divided soul and drags it to hell.
Beggars should be no choosers.
Let the beggar speak for himself. He's in earnest. Haven't we been bred on the principle of self-sacrifice, till we've come to think a man's self is his uncleanest possession?
Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.
A beggar through the world am I, From place to place I wander by. Fill up my pilgrim's scrip for me, For Christ's sweet sake and charity.
Especially begging, on the part of one able to work, is not only the sin of slothfulness, but a violation of the duty of brotherly love according to the Apostle's own word.
Choosers will be beggars if the begging's not their choosing.
Generosity is the vanity of giving.
Modern society calls the beggar bum and panhandler and gives him the bum's rush. But the Greeks used to say that people in need are the ambassadors of the gods
Beware the beguiled, they do their own beguiling.
The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
A soul for a piece of bread. Misery makes the offer; society accepts.
The mighty are beggars, child. They rattle silver cups by the roadside, pleading for love.
sympathetic to some of the truly needy beggars, he wished these
Random Acts of Kindness [10w]
Performing random acts of kindness invites random acts of imitation.
If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.
For those who are not hungry, it is easy to palaver about the degradation of charity ...
The poor man is incapacitated from showing the virtue of generosity to anyone, though he may possess it in the highest degree; and gratitude that consists of disposition only is a dead thing, just as faith without works is dead.
Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.
He makes a beggar first that first relieves him;
Not us'rers make more beggars where they live
Than charitable men that use to give.
Beggars, especially noble beggars, should never show themselves in the street; they should ask for alms through the newspapers. It's still possible to love one's neighbor abstractly, and even occasionally from a distance, but hardly ever up close.
BENEVOLENCE - When the sobbing of SELF PITY crosses over into the WEEPING FOR MANKIND
Fear, prejudice, malice, and the love of approbation bribe a thousand men where gold bribes one.
A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging.
How starved they seemed for ordinary kindness
A favor is half granted, when graciously refused.
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.
There are people in need of help. Charity is one of the nobler human motivations. The act of reaching into one's own pockets to help a fellow man in need is praiseworthy and laudable. Reaching into someone else's pocket is despicable and worthy of condemnation.
Folly, error, sin, avarice
Occupy our minds and labor our bodies,
And we feed our pleasant remorse
As beggars nourish their vermin.
2. Greed, or acquisitive desire.
Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
A corruption of intentions.
Charity you can give even when you haven't got.
Must do like one who, being poor, comes last to the fair, and can find no other way of providing himself than by taking all the things already seen by other buyers, and not taken but refused by reason of their lesser value.
The horrible pleasure of pleasing inferior people.
Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary.
A person born with an instinct for poverty.
Obligation
They cannot ask for kindness
Or for mercy plead,
Yet cruel is our blindness
Which does not see their need,
World-over, town or city,
God trusts us with this task:
To give our love and pity
To those who cannot ask.
But strangers and the poor may pluck for themselves the fruit from my tree: that causes less shame. But beggars should be entirely done away with! Truly, it annoys one to give to them and it annoys one not to give to them.
If Pride leads the Van, Beggary brings up the Rear.
From beggar to thief is one step, but a step in two directions at the same time, for what a beggar loses in morality when he becomes a thief he regains in self-respect.
unbounded vanity.
The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.
Hungry not only for bread - but hungry for love. Naked not only for clothing - but naked of human dignity and respect. Homeless not only for want of a home of bricks - but homeless because of rejection.
There are some favors that can't be bought, and some kindnesses that should only be given freely.
This is one beggar who has found bread telling others where to find it.
Modesty is of no use to a beggar.
Lavish spending cloaks the dark side of generosity
Judgment and weariness are foes to service and generosity.
Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby.
Glory, the casual gift of thoughtless crowds!
Glory, the bribe of avaricious virtue!
Mortals search for what they are unable to give, what they lack within themselves.
Your neediness qualifies you to help others. Your neediness, offered well to someone else, can even be one of the great gifts you give to your church. You will inspire others to ask for help.
Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to which those doom themselves who elect to spend all their years in that vainest of all vain pursuits-the pursuit of mere pleasure as a sufficient end in itself.
You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on other and by them, you need at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season.
The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers.
I, who ne'erWent for myself a begging, go a borrowing,And that for others. Borrowing's much the sameAs begging; just as lending upon usuryIs much the same as thieving.
How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
Only a starving man asks bread from a begger
When you share your last crust of bread with a beggar, you mustn't behave as if you were throwing a bone to a dog. You must give humbly, and thank him for allowing you to have a part in his hunger.
You call that begging? Oh, Kitten, you can do better than that ...
It is the effect of scarcity; one's rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
An attitude of gratitude
Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
the sweetness to be found in generosity
Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.
Tis ever thus when favours are denied;
All had been granted but the thing we beg:
And still some great unlikely substitute
Your life, your soul, your all of earthly good
Is proffer'd, in the room of one small boon.
A man may beg, but a woman has to sell.
Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
Desperation is a fact of life in many poor, overcrowded countries.
Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.
Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.
Grace finds us beggars but leaves us debtors.
The greatest of men must turn beggars when they have to do with Christ.
There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
A beggar's book outworths a noble's blood.
Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars.
I began to enjoy my own generosity; I felt the pleasure of pleasing others, especially as this was accompanied by money-power. I was paying for them; they were grateful, they had to be; and they could no longer see me as a failure.
A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.
When a poor man's wronged, he becomes a very difficult customer. To start with, he gets a lot of sympathy: and then he takes his bad treatment not just as an injury, but as a personal insult.
There is a deep - and usually frustrated - desire in the heart of everyone to act with benevolence rather than selfishness, and one fine instance of generosity can inspire dozens more.
The word begone is a Russian doll. A small, single word, which contains so many others; and when all the smaller words inside line up, they look like a bridge: Be Beg Ego Go On One.
Love shouldn't make a beggar of one. I wouldn't want love if I had to beg for it, to barter or qualify it. And I should despise it if anyone ever begged for my love. Love is something that must be given
it can't be bought with words or pity, or even reason.
Everywhere in the world the industrial regime tends to make the unorganized or unorganizable individual, the pauper, into the victim of a kind of human sacrifice offered to the gods of civilization.
Cruelly unjust both in their act and their thought, accompanied by a feeling that they are helping the world to receive its deserts; men who are honest can blindly go on robbing others of their
Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.