Madonna Ciccone Quotes

Every merciful act to the needy, the suffering, is as though done to Jesus.

Take more pleasure in giving what is best to another than in having it for yourself, and then all the world will love you.

I picked up a man from the street, and he was eaten up alive from worms. Nobody could stand him, and he was smelling so badly. I went to him to clean him, and he asked, 'Why do you do this?' I said, 'Because I love you.'

True love is spelled G-I-V-E. It is not based on what you can get, but rooted in what you can give to the other person.

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.

You've got to give away what you love.

Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.

We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.

It was a very profound experience, getting in touch with that part of us, in all of us human beings, that is committed beyond yourself to the point of giving everything you have, including your life, for other people, for your fellow man.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

Compassion comes from a choice and not the liberal definition of a choice - the choice to say I can do with a little less so my brother can have a little more.

The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.

Tell the people... please, tell the people of Alabama that I love them. Tell them I'm suffering a lot, but I love them.

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

Kind souls, you wonder why, love you, When you, you wonder why, love none We love, Fool, for the good we do, Not that which unto us is done!

To Turn all the treasures we possess into the channel of universal love becomes the business of our lives.

They should give until it hurts, maybe a very small thing, maybe just a packet of cigarettes, but instead of by smoking that one packet, maybe I share that packet with somebody who has not got even one cigarette, and that's the beginning of love, to give until it hurts.

If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.

What is the mark of love for your neighbor? Not to seek what is for your own benefit, but what is for the benefit of the one loved, both in body and in soul.

To love our neighbor in charity is to love God in man.

Love is forgiving and Love is for giving.

He who loves best his fellow-man, is loving God the holiest way he can.

Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification.