Charity Quotes

Very well. He'd lighten up. As a matter of fact, he felt as light as the bubbly froth that flew from...

Only by having a sense of history's trajectory (even if one does not believe in Parousia) can one lo...

As the purse is emptied the heart is filled.

Listen, Monsieur Director, here's what I think. Obviously this is wrong. There are twenty-six of you...

If they had had a different neighbour, one less sel-absorbed and more concerned for others, a man of...

Perhaps there is nothing greater on earth than the sacrifice of youth and beauty, often of high birt...

You have a hierarchy of values; pleasure is at the bottom of the ladder, and you speak with a little...

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, when I give I give myself.

If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think abou...

Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity...

The principle of neighborhood at home always implies the principle of charity abroad. (pg. 260, The ...

Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in...

Those who are truly alive are kindly and unsuspecting in their human relationships and consequently ...

Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.

Cheerfulness means a contented spirit, a pure heart, a kind and loving disposition; it means humilit...

The instructive admonitions, “give an account of thy stewardship,“—“occupy till I come;” are forgott...

He had ceased to believe in the efficacy of alms; it was not sufficient that one should be charitabl...

Therein lies the new hope—Justice, after eighteen hundred years of impotent Charity. Ah! in a thousa...

If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.

I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see th...

To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.

Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all people are recognized an...

The worth of a gift lies as much in the way it is offered as in its intrinsic value.

Africa was full of people in need of help and there had to be a limit. You simply could not help eve...

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

Hard times' is a phrase the English love to use, when speaking of Africa. And it is easy to forget t...

​Whatever we are given is supposed to be given away, not kept.

Auntie An-mei had cried before she left for China, thinking she would make her brother very rich and...

Men are like children, in that, if you spoil them, they become naughty. Therefore it is well not to ...

Charity must be voluntary.

It’s easier to donate a few thousands to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect o...

It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an au...

What a rich wisdom it would be, and how much more bountiful a harvest, to gain pleasure not from ach...

Charity you can give even when you haven't got.

Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnecte...

From the standpoint of the upper classes, the system had many merits. They felt that what was paid o...

In the future society, i.e. the communist society that we want to build, we are not going to establi...

You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know abou...

We are oblivious to suffering. We are cheap with charity if it's not close to our home.

They" hate us because they feel--and "they" are not wrong--that it is within our power to do so much...

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

When you judge yourself for needing help, you judge those you are helping. When you attach value to ...

Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by ...

Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make ev...

I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give...

We are all receiving Charity. There is something in each of us that cannot benaturally loved.

In words which can still bring tears to the eyes, St. Augustine describes the desolation into which ...

God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that He may love ...

When two humans have lived together for many years it usually happens that each has tones of voice a...

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to...

But why do spirits walk the earth, and why do they come to me?""It is required of every man," the Gh...

So may the New Year be a happy one to you, happy to many more whose happiness depends on you!

If I had not grown up in Nigeria- and if all I knew of Africa were of popular images- I too would th...

While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity...

Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged.

The rich world likes and wishes to believe that someone, somewhere, is doing something for the Third...

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.

We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity but a...

Blood has an oder faint but distinct, of conceit and modesty, of courage and cowardice, of charity a...

There are two things you should know about the poor: they tend to smell, and they are ungrateful.

The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving p...

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the o...

One day when we came to a stop, a worker took a piece of bread out of his bag and threw it into a wa...

In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustai...

Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me ...

I've a problem with the word charity because I think that NGOs, as I prefer calling them, really do ...

The great strength she had used in the old days to conquer and subdue, to win her will and to defend...

Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.

Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the ...

Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent o...

God is the comic shepherd who gets more of a kick out of that one lost sheep once he finds it again ...

Visiting the sick' is an orgasm of superiority in the contemplation of our neighbor's helplessness

Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old boo...

We cannot expect to lift others unless we stand on higher ground ourselves.

Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need, though it be your example which leaves them f...

I have often wondered, Sir, [. . .] to observe so few Instances of Charity among Mankind; for tho' t...

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

Yea, he who is a true king of men, will not say to himself, 'Lo! I am worthy to be crowned with laur...

We only have what we give.

Of the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield...

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hung...

Really, seeing the amount we give in charity, the wonder is there are any poor left. It is a comfort...

Organized charity scrimped and iced In the name of the cautious statistical Christ.

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

We are not to reflect on the wickedness of men but to look to the image of God in them, an image whi...

We are not to look to what men in themselves deserve but to attend to the image of God which exists ...

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionatin...

As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and ...

When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man...

If I murmur in the least at affliction, if I am in any way uncharitable, if I revenge my own case, i...

Don't judge without having heard both sides. Even persons who think themselves virtuous very easily ...

Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.

Never exact of a friend in adversity what you would require in prosperity.