Charity Quotes

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Rec...

Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for s...

Miranda nods, because she knows that to be true: noble people don't do things for the money, they si...

The most powerful thought is a prayerful thought. When I'm praying for you, I am praying for my own ...

There is clearly a feeling abroad that God smiled on our beginnings, and that we should return to th...

Children have but little charity for each other's defects.

Fight vigorously against the wolves, but on behalf of the sheep, not against the sheep. And this you...

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of d...

The poor you will always have with you,' Jesus said. A warning, Emilio wondered, or an indictment?

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!

...a being, with a capacity of reasoning, would not have failed to discover, as his faculties unfold...

When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.

That day, I learned that I could be a giver by simply bringing a smile to another person. The ensuin...

There are people dying from famine on the roads, and you do not issue the stores of your granaries f...

It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free...

Give, but give until it hurts.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.

Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the sam...

I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly...

When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid rec...

Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They...

What's the point of doing something good if nobody's watching?

Many love humanity only in order to forget God with a clear conscience.

The majority of people spoil their lives by an unhealthy and exaggerated altruism – are forced, inde...

It’s like this: if you have one piece of cake, and you eat it, that’s fine.If you have two pieces of...

Hebrew word for "charity" tzedakah, simply means "justice" and as this suggests, for Jews, giving to...

A majority of people in these surveys also said that America gives too much aid--but when they were ...

Putting yourself in the place of others...is what thinking ethically is all about.

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.

Faith, hope and charity go together. Hope is practised through the virtue of patience, which continu...

Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, be...

A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.

One man thinks justice consists in paying debts, and has no measure in his abhorrence of another who...

The Sikh gave him the money. When Menon asked for his address so that he could repay the man, the Si...

I feel obligated to point out, though, that I have always been a sucker for ideas I find aesthetical...

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

Charity is merely returning what we have stolen.

That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs yo...

The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public chariti...

It didn´t occur to me until later that there´s another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is ...

Ignorance is the mother of all the evil and all the misery we see. Let men have light, let them be p...

Charity ain't giving people what you wants to give, it's giving people what they need to get.

There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and t...

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

The one single use of things which we call our own is that they might be his who hath need of them.

We must be willing to accept the bitter truth that, in the end, we may have to become a burden to th...

We overcome the evil in the world by the charity and compassion of God, and in so doing we drive all...

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 ...