Charity Quotations | Page 6

Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off?

The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window.

Heart of my heart, were it more, More would be laid at your feet.

The proper education of poor children [is] the ground-work of almost every other kind of charity.... Without this foundation firstlaid, how much kindnessis unavoidably cast away?

Heaven be their resource who have no other but the charity of the world, the stock of which, I fear, is no way sufficient for the many great claims which are hourly made upon it.

Have Love. Not love alone for one, but man as man they brother call; and scatter like the circling sun thy charities on all.

Where were living we have a certain amount of our profit every year its like a percentage 5 or 7% or something like that that we set aside specifically for charity things.

I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue.

The organized charity, scrimped and iced, In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ.

You could go out and give a million dollars to a charity tomorrow to help the homeless. You could argue that it is just wasted. They are not putting anything back into the community.

The truth is, the people who are going to be affected the most are frail, are children, are the elderly and (with) this organization, the money goes directly to health care and helping these people and getting them well. They suffer psychological trauma as well, there's so many things. This is a great, great charity if you're looking for something to donate to.

This is not about charity. This is not about corporate responsibility. This is a smart solution for businesses.

A legitimate charity will not send you an unsolicited e-mail asking for money -- that's not how a professional charity works,

The food preferred by all is also of three types. So are the sacrifice, austerity, and charity.

Private charity discourages poverty while public subsidies encourage it.

You cannot rectify grievances from the past with today's charity.

Private charity can apply 'tough love' but government charity can't.

Government charity gives the most to those who refuse to help themselves; private charity gives less.

Charity is from person to person; and it loses half, far more than half, its moral value when the giver is not brought into personal relation with those to whom he gives.

Charity is false, futile, and poisonous when offered as a substitute for justice.

I am a charity campaigner.

Around 80 per cent of my money goes to charity.

When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift.

My favorite charity is the Womens Refugee Commission and the Nomi network.

The living need charity more than the dead.

The charity auction of this one-of-a-kind piano on eBay offers a unique opportunity for a fan or collector to own a major piece of music history while raising funds to support the critical work of prevention, education and treatment of Aids.

The charitable give out the door and God puts it back through the window.

The desire for power in excess caused angels to fall; the desire for knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in charity is no excess, neither can man or angels come into danger by it

The client had been a well-known charity in the country and really declined in the past 10 years. They have a declining donor file, and there is a decrease in the amount of the average gift.

Note that charity is given only to those who seek it, only to those who earnestly pray for it, only to those who are disciples of Christ. Before we can be filled with this pure love, we must start at the beginning with the first principle of the gospel. We must have "first, Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ."

I have a cotillion event. Some yacht-club charity fundraiser thingy. Whitney is insisting, and Kit took her side.” Three wide smiles. “Oh shut up.

A survey carried out across the U.S. between 2004 and 2006 showed that frequent church- or synagogue-goers are more likely to give money to charity.

The charities closest to my heart have always involved helping children in some way.

Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.

It is true that there is a thing crudely called charity, which means charity to the deserving poor; but charity to the deserving is not charity at all, but justice. It is the undeserving who require it, and the ideal either does not exist at all, or exists wholly for them.

Though we may sometimes unintentionally bestow our beneficence on the unworthy, it does not take from the merit of the act. For charity doth not adopt the vices of its objects.

Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.

No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity.

The living need more charity than the dead

It is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity toward each other.

The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

This only is charity, to do all, all that we can.

Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves.

We should never insult others on account of their faults, for it is our duty to show charity and respect to everyone.

I think I was the beneficiary of a little bit of charity.

Give nobly to indigent merit, and do not refuse your charity even to those who have not merit but their misery.

We are obligated to be more scrupulous in fulfilling the commandment of charity than any other positive commandment because charity is the sign of a righteous man.

Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.

Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.

Happiness is a wondrous commodity: the more you give, the more you have.

It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music.

We should have charity for what the dead say. We may disapprove of what they say, but we should not insult them and revile them knowing they cannot not defend themselves.

I am blessed beyond the realms of blessedness, and easily the greatest pleasure is giving it away

In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.

The church of the Lord is spread over all the globe, and is thus universal; and all those are in it who have lived in the good of charity in accordance with their religion....

Charity is to will and do what is just and right in every transaction.

Faith is knowing and thinking truths. Charity is willing and doing them.

The ransoming of captives has been practiced by Jews for many centuries and has been regarded as a greater obligation than charity for the poor.

a man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.

Charity and treating begin at home.

Charity isn't a good substitute for justice.

I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.

The union of a sect within itself is a pitiful charity; it's no concord of Christians, but a conspiracy against Christ; and they that love one another for their opinionative concurrence, love for their own sakes, not their Lord's.

We only begin to realize the value of our possessions when we commence to do good to others with them. No earthly investment pays so large an interest as charity.

...a young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.

I was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a religious duty to get all I could honorably and to give all I could.

The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source.

Lincoln said, 'With malice toward none, with charity to all.' Nowadays they say, 'Think the way I do or I'll bomb the daylights outta you.'

I donate lots to charity. I don't necessarily tell everybody the number or what I do.

Occasionally the very youngness of the young moved him to charity--they had no sense of the swiftness of life, nor of its limits. The years would pass like weeks, and loves would pass too, or else grow sour.

The best creed we can have is charity toward the creeds of others.

Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often; but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom honored.

Banks and donors and charities claimed to have had successes in Mozambique. I suspected they invented these successes to justify their existence.

Where there is plenty, charity is a duty, not a courtesy

Forgiveness is the best charity. (It is easy to give the poor money and goods when one has plenty, but to forgive is hard; but it is the best thing if one can do it.

Mission is a duty about which one must say 'Woe to me if I do not evangelize' (1 Corinthians 9:16)...redemption and mission are acts of love [because] those who proclaim the Gospel participate in the charity of Christ.

I send them my warmest encouragement to persevere in the patience and charity of Christ.

There is so much wretchedness in the world, that we may safely take the word of any mortal professing to need our assistance; and, even should we be deceived, still the good to ourselves resulting from a kind act is worth more than the trifle by which we purchase it.

Charity in the theater begins and ends with those who have a play opening within a week of one's own.

A friar who asks alms for God's sake begs for two.

One applauds the industry of professional philanthropy. But it has its dangers. After a while the private heart begins to harden. We fling letters into the wastebasket, are abrupt to telephoned solicitations. Charity withers in the incessant gale.

Charity is not a government program.

When Charity is deeply rooted in the soul it shows itself exteriorly: there is so gracious a way of refusing what we cannot give, that the refusal pleases as much as the gift.

I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbors'defects--not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues.

True charity consists in putting up with all one's neighbors fault's; never being surprised by his weakness, and being inspired by the least of his virtues.

Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is simply a polite word for slavery.

The miracle is this - the more you give, the more you have.

I believe in goodness, mercy and charity. I believe in casting bread upon the waters.

He is truly great who hath a great charity.

Whatsoever is done in charity, however small and of no reputation it be, bringeth forth good fruit.

Killing time in the precinct, I find a copy of one of my early volumes in a dump-bin on the pavement outside the charity shop. The price is 10p. It is a signed copy. Under the signature, in my own handwriting, are the words, "To mum and dad".

One might lay down as a postulate: All conceptions of God which are incompatible with a movement of pure charity are false. All other conceptions of him, in varying degree, are true.

The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.

As I "won," I didn't feel the fruits of that. I felt the fruits when I served others, when I gave myself away. . . . I've always seen my life as an experiment. I just want to go to what works. As I felt the charity aspect in my life, the giving aspect, I felt a power and I've walked more into that.

Charity requires sacrifice, and members of Congress could set a good example of charity by giving up their pay increase.

I want to do and I'm giving all the profits to charity, is to teach people to meditate. All it takes is a little bit of patience.

But charity is a very complicated thing. Its important to find an area where you can really help and you can feel the results. Charity is not like feeding pigeons in the square. It is a process that requires professional management.

You know I ain't never prayed before 'Cause it always seemed to me That prayin's the same as beggin' Lord, I don't take no charity.

Charity is the cement that unites communities to God and individuals to each other so that he who contributes to the union of hearts in a community binds it indissolubly to God.