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MELBOURNE, Australia (Sept. 2, 2008) Cryptologic Technician (Collections) 3rd Class Brittany Gonzales, from Corpus Christi, Texas, delivers a posy bunch to a Royal Melbourne Hospital patient during a community outreach project conducted by Sailors from the guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain (DDG 56). The ship's port visit to Melbourne is part of the Great White Fleet centennial anniversary celebration. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Byron C. Linder (Released)

Charity Quotes

Charity Quotes We have collected and put the best Charity Quotes in many categories. Enjoy reading these insights and feel free to share this page on your social media to inspire others. May these Charity Quotes on many subjects inspire you to never give up and keep working towards your...

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Philanthropy

Philanthropy Philanthropy means the love of humanity. A conventional modern definition is “private initiatives, for the public good, focusing on quality of life”, which combines an original humanistic tradition with a social scientific aspect developed in the 20th century. The definition also serves to contrast philanthropy with business endeavors, which...

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Alms

Alms Alms or almsgiving involves giving to others as an act of virtue, either materially or in the sense of providing capabilities (e.g. education) free. It exists in a number of religions and cultures. The word, in the modern English language, comes from the Old English ælmesse, ælmes, from Late Latin eleemosyna, from Greek eleēmosynē (“pity, alms”), from eleēmōn...

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Alms And Almsgiving

Alms And Almsgiving Any material favour done to assist the needy, and prompted by charity, is (alms and) almsgiving. It is evident, then, that almsgiving implies much more than the transmission of some temporal commodity to the indigent. According to the creed of political economy, every material deed wrought by...

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Charity and Charities

Charity And Charities In its widest and highest sense, charity and charities includes love of God as well as love of man. The latter kind of love is so closely connected with, and dependent upon, the former, that neither it nor its fruits, under the Christian dispensation, can be adequately...

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Charity

Charity As Virtue In Christian theology charity, or love (agapē), means an unlimited loving-kindness toward all others. Charity as a virtue is considered as one of the seven virtues and is understood by Thomas Aquinas as “the friendship of man for God”, which “unites us to God”. He holds it as...