Best 1073 quotes in «charity quotes» category

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

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

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

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.

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 must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin.

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

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

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

I used to get taxed on my allowance. Yeah, I've been taxed since I was a little kid. And at the end of the year I had to pick a charity to donate my taxes to.

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

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.

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

I want to live for something. I don't want to live to get charity food to give me enough strength to go back to get more charity food.

I want to get the point across that you may not have money to give to a charity, whether that is Ronald McDonald House or Broadway Cares or DIFFA, but you can help RAISE money or give your time and talents.

I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.

I was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a religious duty to get all I could honorably and to give all I could.

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 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.

Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

[L]ove is inventive to infinity.

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

Make no judgments where you have no compassion.

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.

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.

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.