"Real charity is not something you give away; it is something that you acquire and amke a part of yourself. And when the virtue of charity becomes implanted in your heart, you are never the same again. It makes the thought of being a basher repulsive.
Perhaps the greatest charity comes when we are kind to each other, when we don't judge or categorize someone else, when we simply give each other the benefit of the doubt or remain quiet. Charity is accepting someone's differences, weaknesses, and shortcomings, having patience with someone who has let us down or resisting the impulse to become offended when someone doesn't handle something the way we might have hoped. Charity is refusing to take advantage of another's weakness and being willing to forgive someone who has hurt us. Charity is expecting the best of each other".
-Marvin J. Ashton
"Hope is like a road in the country; there wasn't ever a road,
but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence"
Lin Yutang
"I'm grateful that God allows tragedies and trials to occur in our lives. Not because they are easy or because they are desired, but because they help us love"
"If we thought of life as a gift, we might not demand nearly as much from it. And if we lived more graciously, giving of ourselves more freely to the well-being of others, many of our personal concerns would disappear, and life would become easier for all."
-Lowell C. Bennion
-Lowell C. Bennion
