"Charity is that sweet-smelling savor of Jesus Christ, which vanishes and is extinguished from the moment that it is exposed."

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Source : Jean-Baptiste Massillon (1845). “Sermons of John-Baptist Massillon, Bishop of Clermon, to which is prefixed the life of the author, from the last London edition”, p.198

Jean Baptiste Massillon

#Sweet Quotes #Jesus Quotes #Charity Quotes

“I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.”
“There's a lot of things that I don't promote and I do promote mescaline. They open places in your mind that other things don't and if you're smiling, why not?”
“My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.”
“For Henry James, class was 'the essentially hierarchial plan of English society' which was 'the great and ever-present fact to the mind of a stranger; there is hardly a detail of life that does not in some degree betray it'.”

Source : David Cannadine (1998). “History in Our Time”, p.186, Yale University Press
“A jealous husband is an ugly thing.”
“When you live for others' opinions, you are dead.”

Source : "Carlos Slim: The world's wealthiest man" by Paul Harris, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2010.
“What's this war in the heart of Nature? Why does Nature vie with itself? The Land contend with the Sea? Is there an avenging power in Nature? Not one power, but two?”
“When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight.”

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