Indeed, the highest exercise of charity is, charity towards the uncharitable.
Joseph S. Buckminster (1784-1812) American Unitarian preacher and Bible scholar
Sermon on 2 Peter 1:5-7
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Sermon 24 in Sermons by the Late Rev. J. S. Buckminster (1814). Scriptural reference.
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Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody’s business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.
Thomas Merton (1915-1968) French-American religious and writer [a.k.a. Fr. M. Louis]
Disputed Questions, “The Power and Meaning of Love” (1953)
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