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Believe, Luxury, Giving. Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity. C. S. Lewis. Prayer, Helping Others, Giving. The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gifts...Thus a heavy task is laid upon Gift-love.
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27 kwi 2024 · If our charities do not at all pinch or hamper us, I should say they are too small. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditure excludes them.”. ― CS Lewis, Mere Christianity. tags: charity. Read more quotes from C.S. Lewis.
However, the virtue of “charity” comes by choosing to act lovingly toward the unlikeable. Lewis writes, . . .'. Charity' now means simply what used to be called 'alms'—that is, giving to the poor. Originally it had a much wider meaning. . . Charity means “Love, in the Christian sense.”.
In fact, it wasn’t until I came across this quote from C.S. Lewis that I felt like I had ever heard a truly compelling “rule” for Christian generosity: “I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.
“In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person’s place and thus transcending our own competitive particularity.” “In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are.”
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”. ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves. tags: art, beauty, friendship, god, love. 316 likes.
