Best 1073 quotes in «charity quotes» category

Heaven be their resource who have no other but the charity of the world, the stock of which, I fear, is no way sufficient for the many great claims which are hourly made upon it.

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

Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.

Helping people doesn't have to be an unsound financial strategy.

Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

He who has never denied himself for the sake of giving has but glanced at the joys of charity.

He who hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none.

He who regards the world as he does the fortune of his own body can govern the world. He who loves the world as he does his own body can be entrusted with the world.

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

How can one be compassionate if you belong to any religion, follow any guru, believe in something, believe in your scriptures, and so on, attached to a conclusion? When you accept your guru, you have come to a conclusion, or when you strongly believe in god or in a saviour, this or that, can there be compassion? You may do social work, help the poor out of pity, out of sympathy, out of charity, but is all that love and compassion?

How marvellous it would be if, at the end of the day, each of us could say: today I have performed an act of charity towards others!

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

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

How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good.

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

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

I am blessed beyond the realms of blessedness, and easily the greatest pleasure is giving it away

Hunger is not an issue of charity. It is an issue of justice.

I always like a charity with people who don't speak English because I get them to do all kinds of things around my house.

I am a full-time Research Fellow at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, a small 501(c)(3) public charity supported primarily by individual donations.

I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue.

I am but a small pencil in the hand of a writing God

I am in a charity out there to stop violence against women.

I am in charity, my children, with all the servants of God.

I am inspired by honest people who don't cheat others. To me the famous are those who are kind to fellow human beings and dedicate their life to charity.

I call my putter 'Sweet Charity' because it covers such a multitude of sins from tee to green.

I am not in the giving vein today.

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.

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.

I am sure that if somebody is giving a sum to charity, he or she should be encouraged to do so by the authorities because the spirit in which we encourage people to give has permeated our society.

I believe in my cosmetics line. There are plenty of charities for the homeless. Isn't it time someone helped the homely?

I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities.

I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity.

I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity.

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

I confess that I have hitherto indulged very little in philanthropic enterprises.... While my townsmen and women are devoted in somany ways to the good of their fellows, I trust that one at least may be spared to other and less humane pursuits. You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else. As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.

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

I do as much charity work as I can and that my family life will allow. I do believe charity begins at home and the more we focus on our families, the better they will be.

I did plenty of crazy stuff, but I did a lot of charity stuff. You can't stop. You want to continue to taste, and sometimes that's crazy, stupid things.

I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity.

I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other person. I have a lot to learn from other people.

I don't know how many millions I'll make, so I have to give some back to charity. God blesses me with the money, but only if I give some away.

I don't do social events, I don't do award ceremonies, I don't do charity dinners. I live my life off-radar.

I don't feel sure about doing good in any way now; everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose language I don't know.

I don't want to be a celebrity who's trying to like say, «look at this charity work I'm doing».

I don't think anyone who genuinely embraced sincerity, charity and modesty could be intolerant or divisive.

If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.

If any Muslim plants any plant and a human being or an animal eats of it, he will be rewarded as if he had given that much in charity.

If every rich person gave 50 percent of their wealth to charity, I would not say they should pay more taxes.