Best 1073 quotes in «charity quotes» category

I never used the press for anything except my charity.

In exchange for our humility and willingness to accept the charity of God, we are given a kingdom. And a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.

In giving alms, let us rather look at the needs of the poor than his claim to your charity.

In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.

INGRATE, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object of charity.

In Japan, it's strange to openly take credit for giving to charity or even to donate publicly.

In my own life, I do not live like an effective altruist. An effective altruist would really disapprove of my life. I don't give enough to charity and I still have both my kidneys.

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.

In the meantime, we see there are charities that spend much of their scarce resources that should be going directly to the children to overcome this gulf that separates them from both the donors and the needy.

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

I once had a letter from a man who asked to do something very weird. He told me he wanted to sit on my shoulders and for me to then walk around his town to raise money for charity. He described himself as being 6ft and I was thinking, 'I'm only 5ft 4in, and you want to sit on my shoulders?' How bizarre.

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.

I play bad golf for good charities like the LA Police.

I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live.

I rode in a nine-day charity ride recently, averaged 43km a day and still finished in the lead group. I'm 38, not quite finished yet.

Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off?

I see and hear daily that you of the Clergy preach one against another, teach one contrary to another, inveigh one against another without charity or discretion. Some be too stiff in their old mumpsimus, others be too busy and curious in their new sumpsimus. Thus all men almost be in variety and discord.

I send them my warmest encouragement to persevere in the patience and charity of Christ.

Is it not when the fall is the lowest that charity ought to be the greatest?

Instead of exhorting you to augment your charity, I will rather utter an exhortation, or at least a supplication, that you may not abuse your charity by misapplying it.

I think charity begins with your family and you take it from there.

It fills me with joy to realize that I can lay down my life daily for God, that I can sacrifice it willingly for Him. I may not be a martyr for the faith, but I can be a martyr of charity.

I think I was the beneficiary of a little bit of charity.

I think sometimes all the charities are doing is mopping up the blood. It’s a shame.

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.

I think the legacy we leave is our family. I don't think it's money. I don't think it's - I'm not saying that charity isn't a great thing. I just think that it's my family. Even now I look and I think, God, I'm lucky if I lost it all.

It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities.

It is easier to give all your goods to feed the poor, or not to have any goods - only your virtues, to boast of - than it is to judge the rich with charity.

It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.

It is quite fitting that charity should begin at home ... but then it should not end at home; for those that help nobody will find none to help them in time of need.

. . . [I]n the kingdom of charity, one prefers to suffer some inconvenience rather than inconvenience the neighbor.

It is by desiring to grow in love that we receive the Holy Spirit, and the thirst for more charity is the effect of this more abundant reception.

[I]t is His good pleasure that we remain always in the holy joy of His love.

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

It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end. This is the only permissible form of charity.

It is the best thing to blame ourselves when people cannot get on well with us. Boundless charity necessarily includes all or it ceases to be boundless. We must be strict with ourselves and lenient with our neighbors. For we know not their difficulties and what they overcome.

It is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity toward each other.

It is significant that it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism.

It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless.

It makes that a virtue which is not a virtue, and that a crime which is not a crime. Religion consists in a round of observances that have no relation whatever to natural goodness, but which rather exclude it by being a substitute for it. Penances and pilgrimages take the place of justice and mercy, benevolence and charity. Such a religion, so far from being a purifier, is the great corrupter of morals.

It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise.

It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music.

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.

It's in vogue to have a cause and give money in charity. But to actually speak up and say something like, I'm pissed about this" - that doesn't seem to be very popular unless you're writing a blog or tweeting.

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

I've always respected those who tried to change the world for the better, rather than just complain about it.

It is not the magnitude of our actions, but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.

I want to be part of a different kind of celebrity, one that thinks not just about charity but policy.

I want to do and I'm giving all the profits to charity, is to teach people to meditate. All it takes is a little bit of patience.