Barbara de Angelis Quotes

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill-will to any human being …

Kindness it is that brings forth kindness always.

We help other people because we can, or because it makes us feel good, not because we're counting on some future payback. There is a word for this; love.

Love is forgiving and Love is for giving.

Charity means love towards the neighbor and compassion, for anyone who loves his neighbor as himself also has as much compassion for him in his suffering as he does for himself in his own.

Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

The brave love mercy, and delight to save.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.

My religious philosophy is kindness. Try to be kind. That's something worth achieving.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

… true evangelical faith ... clothes the naked; feeds the hungry; consoles the afflicted; shelters the miserable; aids and consoles all the oppressed; returns good for evil; serves those that injure it; prays for those that persecute it.

I have love in my heart, and I'm kind to people every single day of my life.

'Les Miserables', the book, 'Les Miserables', the musical - it's about giving; it's about goodness. It's about compassion and love.

I was amazed by this person who, even though she had everything, would go to feed the homeless and visit sick children and Aids victims. It was like a fairy tale. Who was she really? Why did she do this? She was trying to find love. I wanted the world to see her kindness, her humility: I think she realised that would be her way.

Charity isn't about pity, it is about love.

Kindness begets kindness evermore.

In the end only kindness matters.

When you feel down, go be a blessing to somebody else.

Beneficence is a duty. He who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized, at length comes really to love him to whom he has done good. When, therefore, it is said, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," it is not meant, thou shalt love him first and do him good in consequence of that love, but, thou shalt do good to thy neighbor; and this thy beneficence will engender in thee that love to mankind which is the fulness and consummation of the inclination to do good.

Love is giving and it has nothing to do with what you receive.