Charity Quotes

On the essentials, unity. On the nonessentials, liberty. In everything, charity.

There is small merit in mocking goodness, tweaking charity; it is much more comic to deprive people of their petty little existence for no reason at all, for a lark.

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

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.

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

You cannot attain to charity except through humility.

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

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

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

Charity isn't a good substitute for justice.

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

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

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

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

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

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.

I am currently doing about 30 charity auctions a year.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

We must show charity towards the sick, who are in greater need of help. Let us take them some small gift if they are poor, or, at least let us go and wait on them and comfort them.

With malice towards none; with charity for all.

Walk and talk in manner of love or charity, for God is love.

Fighting by itself doesn't interest me anymore. I want to help people, the black people and I need any kind of media to spread my thought: God, charity, peace.

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

Actually I do support a charity, DefendersofWildLife.org. They help protect endangered species.

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

Scatter abroad what you have already amassed rather than pile up new wealth.

The smallest act of charity shall stand us in great stead.

Hope is the mainspring of human action; faith seals our lease of immortality; and charity and love give the passport to the soul's true and lasting happiness.

One thing will always secure heaven for us-the acts of charity and kindness with which we have filled our lives. We can do no great things, only small things with great love.

Make haste in giving voluntary charity, for calamities cannot pass by it.

As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Children have but little charity for one another's defects