Charity Quotations | Page 7

The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.

Everybody in life is pursuing money: left, right, charity, nonprofits, everybody's pursuing money. Everybody wants a raise. Everybody wants to improve their standard of living. Everybody wants to be rich, and especially those that go to Washington.

Charity is willingly given from the heart.

I’d like to own Microsoft shares until I either give something to charity or I die.

Solidarity is not an act of charity, but mutual aid between forces fighting for the same objective.

Someone once bought me loads of clothes from a charity shop - and sent them to me in a black bin liner. That was weird. I went through it and it was full of bizarre outfits like Abba costumes.

Honest men live on charity in their age; the almshouses are full of men who never stole a copper penny. Honest men are the fools and the saints.

Scatter plenty o'er a smiling land.

And whereas many men, by accident unevitable, become unable to maintain themselves by their labour; they ought not to be left to the Charity of private persons; but to be provided for, (as far-forth as the necessities of Nature require,) by the Lawes of the Common-wealth. For as it is Unchariablenesse in any man, to neglect the impotent; so it is in the Soveraign of a Common-wealth, to expose them to the hazard of such uncertain Charity.

A woman who wants a charitable heart wants a pure mind.

Alas for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun!

I have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford.

How shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves?

In all works of liberality something more is to be considered besides the occasion of the givers; and that is the occasion of the receivers.

Whoever would entitle himself after death through the merits of his Redeemer, to the noblest of rewards, let him serve God throughout life in this most excellent of all duties, doing good to our brethren. Whoever is sensible of his offences, let him take this way especially of evidencing his repentance.

Charity is having patience with someone who has let us down. It is resisting the impulse to become offended easily. It is accepting weaknesses and shortcomings. It is accepting people as they truly are. It is looking beyond physical appearances to attributes that will not dim through time. It is resisting the impulse to categorize others.

I have been able to travel all over the country and see many places that I probably never would have visited. I have also participated in many charity events for worthy causes.

By the time I was 9, I was frequently asked to play exhibitions at grand openings, fund-raisers for charities, and other special events.

So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give.

The big thing that Moneypenny changed was the amount of charity work that I was able to be involved with.

That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame.

Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity.

Research material can turn up anywhere - in a dusty old letter in an archive, a journal or some old photographs you find in a charity shop.

The curiosity of an honorable mind willingly rests there, where the love of truth does not urge it farther onward, and the love of its neighbor bids it stop; in other words, it willingly stops at the point where the interests of truth do not beckon it onward, and charity cries, Halt!

Charity is taking an ugly girl to lunch.

Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.

Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.

Now Christianity sounded good at first to the naive convert. Love, peace and charity - what's wrong with that? I'll tell you what's wrong - a series of unprecedented horrors perpetrated by so-called Christians: The Inquisition, the Conquistadores, the American Indian wars, slavery, Hiroshima and the present-day Bible Belt.

Where has the Scripture made merit the rule or measure of charity?.

The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.

Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.

Our possessions are wholly in our performances. He owns nothing to whom the world owes nothing.

How can we know the true meaning of charity if we don't even know how to help those closest to us?

The bread which you use is the bread of the hungry; the garment hanging in your wardrobe is the garment of him who is naked; the shoes you do not wear are the shoes of the one who is barefoot; the acts of charity that you do not perform are so many injustices that you commit.

If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.

True virtue has no limits, but goes on and on, and especially holy charity, which is the virtue of virtues, and which having a definite object, would become infinite if it could meet with a heart capable of infinity.

To love our neighbor in charity is to love God in man.

When charity requires it we must freely and mildly communicate to our neighbor not only what is his instruction, but also what is profitable for his consolation.

Cook the truth in charity until it tastes sweet.

Charity and devotion differ no more, the one from the other, than the flame from the fire.

A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity.

You have no idea, sir, how difficult it is to be the victim of benevolence.

The thing about all these charities is that who sees where the money goes? I don't and you don't. For all I know, the president of Make a Wish just used all the money to buy himself a mansion and a yacht. That's why I keep all of my money for myself, at least then I know I'm doing good for at least one person for sure.

Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it.

Gently to hear, kindly to judge.

Charity itself fulfills the law. And who can sever love from charity?

Heaven would that she these gifts should have, and I to live and die her slave.

Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts- O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power So to seduce!

Under the colour of commending him I have access my own love to prefer; But Silvia is too fair, too true, too holy, To be corrupted with my worthless gifts.

I am not in the giving vein today.

She told her, while she kept it, 'Twould make her amiable and subdue my father Entirely to her love, but if she lost it Or made a gift of it, my father's eye Should hold her loathed and his spirits should hunt After new fancies.

Fortune reigns in gifts of the world.

God bless thee; and put meekness in thy breast, Love, charity, obedience, and true duty!

My charity is outrage, life my shame; And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage!

To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.

Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of civil or religious policy has originated them; they form its highest praise and characteristic feature.

Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity.

There can be no Christianity where there is no charity

You cannot separate charity and religion.

Many ... begin to make converts from motives of charity, but continue to do so from motives of pride. ... Charity is contented with exhortation and example, but pride is not to be so easily satisfied. ... Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity.

Mankind was my business... charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.

Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one letter of it; nor without attending to charity, study and other pious activity.

As water collected in a tank gets pure by filtration, so accumulated wealth is preserved by being employed in charity.

Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.

Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved.

I would rather have it said, 'He lived usefully,' than, 'He died rich.'

Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope.

True patriotism is a charity so wide that it covers a nation.

Charity is the note that resolves the discord.

Charity is the only lubricant that keeps the axle of the world creaking.

Charity that is always beginning at home stays there.

If you combine all the spectral rays into a single beam, you get white light; and, if you combine all the virtues into a single beam, you get charity.

Boards of public charity were invented by the devil to prevent real individual charity.

There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Charity is suppose to cover up for a multitude of sins.

The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.

What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue.

Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of any possible beneficiary. Yet we are taught to admire the second-hander who dispenses gifts he has not produced above the man who made the gifts possible. We praise an act of charity. We shrug at an act of achievement.

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

Don't be afraid of outgiving God. It is impossible to do that.

Whilst in speaking of human things, we say that it is necessary to know them before we love can them...the saints on the contrary say in speaking of divine things that it is necessary to love them in order to know them, and that we only enter truth through charity.

All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.

All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.

If your religion does not change you, then you should change your religion

Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.

All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.

Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

What do you call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, magnanimity, forgiveness? Different results of the one master impulse: the necessity of securing one's self-approval

Having a corporate sponsor for their New Year's Eve party is a preliminary conversation. This is a very premature E-mail that went out. Will and Jada were just looking for some way to have an over-the-top party that benefited their charity . This is how parties get thrown every single day.

In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our own competitive particularity.

In a just world, there would be no possibility of 'charity'.

Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.

To have ability for eating when dishes are ready at hand, to be robust and virile in the company of one's religiously wedded wife, and to have a mind for making charity when one is prosperous are the fruits of no ordinary austerities.

With malice towards none; with charity for all....

Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.

I as little fear that God will damn a person who has charity as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.

Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.

When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.

Trump Foundation, small foundation. People contribute, I contribute. The money goes 100 percent - 100 percent goes to different charities, including a lot of military. I don't get anything. I don't buy boats. I don't buy planes.