good-works

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463bb49	Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.	divine-works god-like sympathy worth jesus empathy compassion faith life inspirational consideration good-works works divine-love unconditional-love the-one christ-like giving helping-others value poor beautiful	Criss Jami
8f42ff9	...it is not to be understood that I am with him [Jesus] in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist, he takes the side of spiritualism; he preaches the efficacy of repentance toward forgiveness of sin. I require a counterpoise of good works to redeem it... Among the sayings & discourses imputed to him by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence: and others again of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism, and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same being. [ ]	materialist good-works untruth contradictions materialism atheism forgiveness ignorance atheist	Thomas Jefferson
435e9b6	To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.	accomplishment dream inspirational good-works	Anatole France
14948c2	His words even imply that philanthropy has deeper depths than is generally realized. The great emotions of compassion and mercy are traced to Him; there is more to human deeds than the doers are aware. He identified every act of kindness as an expression of sympathy with Himself. All kindnesses are either done explicitly or implicitly in His name, or they are refused explicitly or implicitly in His name.	jesus good-works philanthropy	Fulton J. Sheen

Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.

divine-works god-like sympathy worth jesus empathy compassion faith life inspirational consideration good-works works divine-love unconditional-love the-one christ-like giving helping-others value poor beautiful

Criss Jami

8f42ff9

...it is not to be understood that I am with him [Jesus] in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist, he takes the side of spiritualism; he preaches the efficacy of repentance toward forgiveness of sin. I require a counterpoise of good works to redeem it... Among the sayings & discourses imputed to him by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence: and others again of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism, and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same being. [ ]

materialist good-works untruth contradictions materialism atheism forgiveness ignorance atheist

Thomas Jefferson

435e9b6

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.

accomplishment dream inspirational good-works

Anatole France

14948c2

His words even imply that philanthropy has deeper depths than is generally realized. The great emotions of compassion and mercy are traced to Him; there is more to human deeds than the doers are aware. He identified every act of kindness as an expression of sympathy with Himself. All kindnesses are either done explicitly or implicitly in His name, or they are refused explicitly or implicitly in His name.

jesus good-works philanthropy

Fulton J. Sheen