Charity Quotes

He that rightly understands the reasonableness and Excellency of charity will know that it can never be excusable to waste any of our money in pride and folly.

Charity and treating begin at home.

Charity alone, or love and compassion, is what joins [the Lord and a person] together.

All Christian worship is a witness of the resurrection of Him who liveth for ever and ever. Because He lives, "now abideth faith, hope, charity."

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

How white are the fair robes of Charity as she walketh amid the lowly habitations of the poor!

Men and women of high professional standing were reduced to the status of vagrants, unable to find employment and forced to eat the bitter bread of public or private charity.

All philanthropy — no age has seen more of it than our own — is only a savoury fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer.

Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.

Why is it that so many people think that charity consists in giving away merely what they cannot use instead of the article the recipient needs?

Be Charitable before wealth make thee covetous, and loose not the glory of the Mite.

That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation.

Death makes a beautiful appeal to charity. When we look upon the dead form, so composed and still, the kindness and the love that are in us all come forth.

There are tens of thousands of charities and hundreds of thousands, getting towards millions, of people now using it. And when I flip through it, I'm just blown away by people.

Charity never faileth.

On trade, our hypocrisy is at its most appalling. Trade reform isn't about charity, it's about justice, and this campaign, Trade Justice is an unstoppable idea.

Immediately you will be perfect, you will become God.

Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues.

No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.

I have my own charity organization in Berlin called Ruckenwind, which supports kids from - ya - not ideal backgrounds.

I tend to do golf charity things because it's much safer and you don't get much chance of a broken arm or leg.

Kiss is not a charity. Never, ever mix commerce and charity.

Charity, patience and tenderness are very beautiful gifts. If you have them, you want to share them with others.

I own about 300 pairs of shoes. When I start to go over 300, I have mini-sales from my closet and give the money to charity. It's my way of recycling; I feel like I can give back to the universe.

A man should fear when he only enjoys what good he does publicly. Is it not the publicity rather than the charity he loves? Is it not vanity, rather than benevolence, that gives such charities?

We may cover a multitude of sins with the white robe of charity.

As charity covers a multitude of sins before God, so does politeness before men.

Hope is a leg of a 3-legged stool with Faith and Charity.

I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.

Corporatism trying to redeem itself through charity is akin to a serial killer offering to pay a fine for his crimes.

Entrepreneurs are the seekers of solutions, and that they will go into these places where both market and traditional aid has failed or traditional charity has failed.

Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.

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

To give is to receive.

Love is born of faith, lives on hope, and dies of charity.

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

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.

Charity is the root of all good works.

Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.

There is so much indifference in the face of suffering. May we overcome indifference with concrete acts of charity.

Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.

On why he has donated $600 million to selected charities. I simply decided I had enough money.

Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined.

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

Children have but little charity for one another's defects

Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.

Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home.

We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift.

I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with handouts. I don't believe in handouts.

Never say never. For the right reason, over the years I've been auctioning off masks for charity and it's always for a good cause. I think you would regret it if you just sold it for money.