8 sentences with 'charity'
Example sentences and phrases with the word charity and other words derived from it.
• « The growing importance of Mary in Christian practice led to a new approach to charity within the Church, as she was believed to intervene on behalf of supplicants without the need for recompense. »
• « When crops failed, the poor often flocked to the cities in search of some kind of respite, be it work or church-based charity. »
• « Those good works could be acts of kindness and charity, or they could be gifts of money to the Church - a common "good work" at the time was leaving money or land to the Church is one's will. »
• « The new religious orders, including not only the Jesuits but also the Capuchins, the Ursulines and the followers of Vincent de Paul (who lived at the end of the 16th century) sponsored great works of charity, reconnecting the poor with the Church. »
• « Idleness' was still considered dangerous and sinful, however, so middle-class women became increasingly involved in raising their own children, maintaining the social relations that showed they belonged to the more educated classes, and becoming involved in charity. »
• « The prevailing theory of Social Darwinism was that charity or "artificial" controls on the exploitation of workers such as trade unions would lead to the survival of the unfit, which in turn would cause the decline of the human species. »
• « Likewise, charity, aid and rehabilitation were misplaced, as they would supposedly lead to the survival of the unfit and thus drag down the health of society at large. Therefore, the best policy was to allow the "unfit" to die if possible, and to try to impose limits on their breeding if not. »