Best 1073 quotes in «charity quotes» category

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

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.

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

[L]ove is inventive to infinity.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 reluctant charity shames both me and the recipient.

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

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 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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity.

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.

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

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

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

Objects of charity are not guests.

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

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.

One of the things that I encourage for anybody who is interested in their own charity or philanthropy is to start from where you are and what has mattered to you.

One applauds the industry of professional philanthropy. But it has its dangers. After a while the private heart begins to harden. We fling letters into the wastebasket, are abrupt to telephoned solicitations. Charity withers in the incessant gale.

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 Sacrament of Love! O sign of Unity! O bond of Charity! He who would have Life finds here indeed a Life to live in and a Life to live by.

On the last day, when the general examination takes place, there will be no question at all on the text of Aristotle, the aphorisms of Hippocrates, or the paragraphs of Justinian. Charity will be the whole syllabus.

Organized charity itself is. . . the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives, delinquents and dependents

On the essentials, unity. On the nonessentials, liberty. In everything, charity.

On why he has donated $600 million to selected charities. I simply decided I had enough money.

Our charity is to be cordial...something that renews, invigorates and warms. Such should be the effect of our love for each other.

Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
 all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.

Our possessions are wholly in our performances. He owns nothing to whom the world owes nothing.

Oxytocin infusion increases generosity in unilateral monetary transfers by 80 percent [and] increases donations to charity by 50 percent.

Our zeal is always guided by charity. Everything is done with strength and gentleness.

Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.

Paying good wages is not charity at all-it is the best kind of business.

People are always pleased to indulge their religiosity when it allows them to stand in judgment of someone else, licenses them to feel superior to someone else, tells them they are more righteous than someone else. They are less enthusiastic when religiosity demands that they be compassionate to someone else. That they show charity, service and mercy to everyone else.

People-to-people charity is more efficient, less costly, more human and compassionate, and more likely to inspire change and self-sufficiency in the beneficiary.