Best 1073 quotes in «charity quotes» category

I would have none of that rigid circumspect charity which is never done without scrutiny, and which always mistrusts the truth of the necessities laid open to it.

I would like it to be a legal requirement for all businesses to be linked to a charity.

I wouldn't dream of selling my work. I give them to friends, to charities.

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

Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.

Killing time in the precinct, I find a copy of one of my early volumes in a dump-bin on the pavement outside the charity shop. The price is 10p. It is a signed copy. Under the signature, in my own handwriting, are the words, "To mum and dad".

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

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

Laissez-faire capitalism, or anarchocapitalism, is simply the economic form of the libertarian ethic. Laissez-faire capitalism encompasses the notion that men should exchange goods and services, without regulation, solely on the basis of value for value. It recognizes charity and communal enterprises as voluntary versions of this same ethic. Such a system would be straight barter, except for the widely felt need for a division of labor in which men, voluntarily, accept value tokens such as cash and credit. Economically, this system is anarchy, and proudly so.

Large charity doth never soil, but only whitens soft white hands.

Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one letter of it; nor without attending to charity, study and other pious activity.

Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and 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.

Let shining Charity adorn your zeal, The noblest impulse generous minds can feel.

Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene

Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

Let us never forget that if we wish to die like the Saints we must live like them. Let us force ourselves to imitate their virtues, in particular humility and charity.

Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads Let love through good deeds show.

Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves.

Little I ask And that little is not granted." There are few crumbs In this world any more.

Love and charity for the whole human race, that is the test of true religiousness.

Make no judgments where you have no compassion.

[L]ove is inventive to infinity.

Many ... begin to make converts from motives of charity, but continue to do so from motives of pride. ... Charity is contented with exhortation and example, but pride is not to be so easily satisfied. ... Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than 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.

Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.

Mankind was my business... charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.

Mission is a duty about which one must say 'Woe to me if I do not evangelize' (1 Corinthians 9:16)...redemption and mission are acts of love [because] those who proclaim the Gospel participate in the charity of Christ.

May we not say, that true zeal is not mostly charitable, but wholly so? That is, if we take charity in St. Paul's sense, for love; the love of God and our neighbour. For it is a certain truth, (although little understood in the world), that Christian zeal is all love. It is nothing else.

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

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.'

My favorite charity is the Womens Refugee Commission and the Nomi network.

My charity is in the business of helping firefighters in any way that we can. For instance, after 9/11 we were the second-fastest charity to raise and distribute money to the widows and surviving family members of the 343 firefighters who died that day.

My charity is outrage, life my shame; And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage!

My priority going forward is to be able to be involved in things like the farm and fighting hunger events, and then doing things to give back to charity, and staying involved in agriculture and farming, and building that.

My little brother is autistic, so I would love to be involved in a charity for autism, but I haven't found the right one yet.

My reluctant charity shames both me and the recipient.

Neutrality in things good or evil is both odious and prejudicial; but in matters of an indifferent nature is safe and commendable. Herein taking of parts maketh sides, and breaketh unity. In an unjust cause of separation, he that favoreth both parts may perhaps have least love of either side, but hath most charity in himself.

Never do I close my door behind me without being conscious that I am carrying out an act of charity towards myself.

No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity.

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

No amount of money given in charity, nothing but the abandonment of this hateful trade, can atone for this great sin against God, Israel and Humanity.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

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

Nothing leads more directly to the breach of charity, and to the injury and molestation of our fellow-creatures, than the indulgence of an ill temper.

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

Occasionally the very youngness of the young moved him to charity--they had no sense of the swiftness of life, nor of its limits. The years would pass like weeks, and loves would pass too, or else grow sour.

No work of charity can be more productive of good to society than the careful instruction of women.

One might lay down as a postulate: All conceptions of God which are incompatible with a movement of pure charity are false. All other conceptions of him, in varying degree, are true.

O how unspeakable is this Sacrament which sets our affections ablaze with charity. ... It is the fulfillment of Christ's Mystical Body.