Charity Quotes

To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To you, respect.

We only have what we give.

Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor.

Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. And by the grace of God, I will.

Earning of livelihood by following some profession is better than living on charity.

Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged.

Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

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.

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

There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother.

Without charity, there is no salvation.

No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God's creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy.

Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty.

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

Charity is indeed, a great thing, and a gift of God, and when it is rightly ordered likens us unto God himself, as far as that is possible; for it is charity which makes the man.

Opportunity is the greatest charity.

Not only does charity begin at home. Everything begins at home, including spirituality.

URGE is a grassroots charity. We organized to get some incubators to give to the hospital for the kids. We donate money to orphanages.

Indolent and unworthy the beggar may be—but that is not your concern: It is better, said Joseph Smith, to feed ten impostors than to run the risk of turning away one honest petition.

If you have two shirts in your closet, one belongs to you and the other to the man with no shirt.

We have to get out of this mindset that the rich will do the business and the poor will have the charity.

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead

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

When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company to mount an aggressive anti-smoking campaign.

If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.

In charity, every little bit works. You can't change the world. You can't do everything. But you sure try to bring awareness and do as much as you can.

It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than to earn it in the first place.

Charity begins at home.

A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature

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

It is a deed of greater charity to give a bit of bread to the poor in the time of high prices and famine, than a whole loaf in the time of fertility and abundance.

Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, 'We kept charity overhead low.' We want it to read that we changed the world.

When paying charity, one should smile and be humble, allowing the hand of the indigent to be above the giver's hand.

I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming

Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.

Man's value before God is estimated by the dispositions of his heart, its uprightness, its good will, its charity, and not by keenness of intellect or extent of knowledge.

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

I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return.

Give, but give until it hurts.

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

An environmentalist that eats meat is like a philanthropist that won't give money to charities.

I think the greatest of all human virtues is loyalty. It embraces all the best of the human character: courage, faith, love and charity.

Charity cures heartaches.

It seems to me to be the best proof of an evangelical disposition, that persons are not angry when reproached, and have a Christian charity for those that ill deserve it.

I love to observe Christmas in quietude, humility, benevolence, charity, letting good will towards man, eloquent silence, prayer, and praise express my conception of Truth’s appearing.

Charity is like warmth in springtime or summer that causes grass, plants, and trees to grow. Without charity, or spiritual warmth, nothing grows.

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

Show charity and goodwill to others and it will return to enhance your own life in many wonderful ways.