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Good Samaritan

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1. Good Samaritan - Noun

2. Good Samaritan - Phrase

3. Good Samaritan - Proper noun

Meaning

a person who voluntarily offers help or sympathy in times of trouble

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No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well. Margaret Thatcher

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?" Martin Luther King Jr.

To be independent to my mind does not mean to be isolated, to be the priest or the Levite, but rather to be the good Samaritan. There is no real independence save only as we secure it through the law of service. Calvin Coolidge

Wherever there are people, the Church is called to reach out to them and to bring the joy of the Gospel. ... May our passing through the Holy Door today commit us to making our own the mercy of the Good Samaritan. Pope Francis

The better life rests less on the prohibitions of the Ten Commandments and more on the parable of the Good Samaritan and the Golden Rule. David Josiah Brewer

All that's left of Good Samaritan Peter Wagenaar's Mini Cooper after it was petrol-bombed in Mouille Point, Cape Town, 6 May 2020. Source: Internet

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