Charite

After riding from home to home collecting charite' for the gumbo pot, revelers head to the cemetery to pay their respects to a lost friend. ❋ Karen Dalton-Beninato (2011)

+P+ar seinte charite biddeð a pateR nost {er} for iohan þ̵ þeos boc w {ra} t. ❋ Joseph Hall (N/A)

To Wetheringsett Church a chaplain of Bury carefully reserves "a book called Fasiculus Mors [Fasciculus morum], to lye in the chauncell, for priests to occupye ther tyme when it shall please them, praying them to have my soule in remembraunce as it shall please them of their charite" (1519). ❋ Unknown (1911)

“C'est une vraie charite que vous me faites de venir me voir.” ❋ Brandes, George, 1842-1927 (1906)

I know Madame de Treymes slightly -- I have met her at Fanny's -- but she never remembers the fact except when she wants me to go to one of her ventes de charite. ❋ Unknown (1906)

I know Madame de Treymes slightly -- I have met her at Fanny's -- but she never remembers the fact except when she wants me to go to one of her _ventes de charite_. ❋ Edith Wharton (1899)

The soeurs de charite, who are of all Catholic nations, are organised entirely by the French. ❋ Browning, Elizabeth B (1898)

It's rather the contrary, to my mind, and, any way, the women of England must give the precedence to the soeurs de charite, who have magnificently won it in all matters of this kind. ❋ Browning, Elizabeth B (1898)

"Orate pro anima," or "of your charite pray for the soul of ----" were usual inscriptions. ❋ Unknown (1892)

[349] Et ailleurs il est dit: La grace de notre Seigneur Jesus-Christ, et la charite de Dieu, et la communication du Saint-Esprit soient avec vous. ❋ Unknown (1889)

Il est donc impossible que cette sainte foi soit oisive en l'homme, vu que nous ne parlons pas de la foi vaine, [477] mais de celle que l'Ecriture appelle foi operante par la charite, [478] laquelle induit l'homme ` a s'exercer dans les oeuvres que Dieu a commandees par sa ❋ Unknown (1889)

Nous croyons que les eglises particulieres, etablies en divers lieux et plus ou moins melangees de regeneres et d'inconvertis, doivent se faire connaitre au monde par la profession de leur esperance, les actes de leur culte, et le travail de leur charite. ❋ Unknown (1889)

Jean Gumming of Altyre, who, in common with her three sisters, was a true soeur de charite, was one day taking her rounds as usual, visiting the poor sick, among whom there was a certain Donald MacQueen, who had been some time confined to his bed. ❋ Ramsay, Edward B (1874)

[24] It is one of Pascal's best thoughts, that "On se fait une idole de la verite meme; car la verite hors de la charite n'est pas Dieu; c'est son image, et une idole, qu'il ne faut point aimer, ni adorer, et encore moins faut-il aimer ou adorer son contraire, qui est le men songe." ❋ 1789-1850 (1870)

Et si apres une telle charite elle s'etoit offerte a me servir toujours de mesme, comment aurois-je du l'honorer, lui obeir, l'aimer toute ma vie! ❋ Francis Parkman (1858)

"Shall we call in a professional nurse, or a soeur de charite?" ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)