Best 1073 quotes in «charity quotes» category

Tax deductible, That's what you are: Tax deductible. Just like my car, like a gift to local charity, you give my 1040 clarity

That comes too late that comes for the asking.

That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame.

That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation.

That is part of our critique of some of the charity and service work is that we can still keep relationships at a distance by creating programs that offer services but we don't really create a reconciled community.

That's the trouble with our charities; we are always saving somebody away off, when the fellow next to us ain't eating.

That's what our Rules engage us to do, to help poor persons, our lords and masters.

That's why charity work is very selfish at the same time, because it makes you feel good.

The best creed we can have is charity toward the creeds of others.

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.

The big thing that Moneypenny changed was the amount of charity work that I was able to be involved with.

The best kind of charity is to help those who are willing to help themselves.

The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.

The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.

The character of a people may be ruined by charity.

The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window.

The charities closest to my heart have always involved helping children in some way.

The charities of life are scattered everywhere, enameling the vales of human beings as the flowers paint the meadows. They are not the fruit of study, nor the privilege of refinement, but a natural instinct.

The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.

The Clintons want to do big worthy things, but they also want to squeeze money from rich people wherever they live on planet Earth, insatiably gobbling up cash for politics and charity and themselves from the same incestuous swirl.

The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness; if it issuesnot from there, but from theoretical or other considerations, it is not at all the same thing.

The constitutionality and propriety of the Federal Government assuming to enter into a novel and vast field of legislation, namely, that of providing for the care and support of all those ... who by any form of calamity become fit objects of public philanthropy. ... I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for making the Federal Government the great almoner of public charity throughout the United States. To do so would, in my judgment, be contrary to the letter and spirit of the Constitution and subversive of the whole theory upon which the Union of these States is founded.

The faith must express itself in charity and in solidarity, which is the civil form of charity.

The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.

The essence of charity ... was not deciding what others needed and giving it to them, but giving them what they wanted.

The doctrines contained in the Bible will lift to a superior condition all who observe them; they will impart to them knowledge, wisdom, charity, fill them with compassion and cause them to feel after the wants of those who are in distress.

The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune.

The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.

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

The gifts of the Holy Spirit are testimony, faith, knowledge, wisdom, revelations, miracles, healing, and charity, to name but a few.

The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

The good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end.

The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.

The guiding motive of mankind should be charity towards men, charity towards all animals.

The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring to you increased happiness.

The great thing is these days I no longer have to work for a living and that all of the things that I'm able to do where money is paid as compensation for whatever it be, I'm able to donate all of that to charity. That's a wonderful position to find yourself in at the latest stages of your life and I'm proud to have walked the path that I have and I'm proud to be able to continue working and to be able to give away what I earn to some very good causes here in the Southwest.

The miracle is this - the more you give, the more you have.

The intellect, divine as it is, and all worshipful, has a habit of lodging in the most seedy of carcasses, and often, alas, acts the cannibal among the other faculties so that often, where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

The Lord loveth a cheerful giver. He also accepteth from a grouch.

The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity.

The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.

The more good I do, the more money has come in. You have to learn to give. You're not born to give. You're born selfish.

The most fundamental winning formula is to bet on human decency and be patient.

The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.

The question is not, do we go to church; the question is, have we been converted. The crux of Christianity is not whether or not we give donations to popular charities but whether or not we are really committed to the poor.

The proper education of poor children [is] the ground-work of almost every other kind of charity.... Without this foundation firstlaid, how much kindnessis unavoidably cast away?

The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms

The ransoming of captives has been practiced by Jews for many centuries and has been regarded as a greater obligation than charity for the poor.

There are so many angles to follow up: government incompetence, sophisticated charity scams, how insurance companies treat victims, construction of the levees, who will start ripping off the billions of dollars available in new contracts. Every single one of these stories is going to be a big one.