Charity Quotes

Charity is without fear: having given all that it has, it has nothing left to lose.

Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to Virtue's side.

To desire the common good and strive towards it is a requirement of justice and charity.

Charity brings to life again those who are spiritually dead.

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

That's why charity work is very selfish at the same time, because it makes you feel good.

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.

The character of a people may be ruined by charity.

My grandmother always said, 'when you receive a paycheck, you always have to put a certain amount to your savings, and 10 percent right away to charity.'

Let us never forget that an age prospers or dwindles in proportion to its devotion to the Holy Eucharist. This is the measure of its spiritual life and its faith, of its charity and its virtue.

Oxytocin infusion increases generosity in unilateral monetary transfers by 80 percent [and] increases donations to charity by 50 percent.

'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

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

With charity, money is purified. By service, our actions are purified. With music, our emotions are purified and with knowledge our intellect is purified.

The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts.

My poor are my best patients. God pays for them.

Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.

Of the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield and body, for he was their mother’s elder brother.

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

I've a problem with the word charity because I think that NGOs, as I prefer calling them, really do take the work of moral and social responsibilities that ought to be taken on by governments.

The faith must express itself in charity and in solidarity, which is the civil form of charity.

Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom.

A disciple having asked for a definition of charity, the Master said LOVE ONE ANOTHER.

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.

Journey quietly on your pathway to forever with charity & a smile. When you depart it will be said by all that your legacy was a better world than the one you found.

They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball.

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

I am currently doing about 30 charity auctions a year.

While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.

There is one way whereby we may secure our riches, and make sure friends to ourselves of them,--by laying them out in charity.

The gospel chargeth us with piety towards God, and justice and charity to men, and temperance and chastity in reference to ourselves.

It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work.

Charity isn't a good substitute for justice.

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

Michael Jackson's charity efforts? Mmm. I'm sure they have nothing to do with his molestation charges.

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

You cannot attain to charity except through humility.

In what is necessary, unity; in what is not necessary, liberty and in all things charity.

The measure of charity may be taken from the want of desires. As desires diminish in the soul, charity increases in it; and when it no longer feels any desire, then it possesses perfect charity.

I do a lot of stuff. I mean, you know, charity work.

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

The living need charity more than the dead.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world.

Everything is integral and interacts with everything else. This means that nothing is itself without everything else. There is a commonality, an integrity, an intimacy of the universe with itself.

By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to those we give, to Jove is lent.

People-to-people charity is more efficient, less costly, more human and compassionate, and more likely to inspire change and self-sufficiency in the beneficiary.