Best 1073 quotes in «charity quotes» category

Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.

Saviour! teach me, day by day, Love's sweet lesson to obey; Sweeter lesson cannot be, Loving Him who first loved me. Charity is the very livery of Christ.

Seek (beneficial) knowledge, because seeking it for the sake of Allaah is a worship. And knowing it makes you more God-fearing; and searching for it is jihad, teaching it to those who do not know is charity, reviewing and learning it more is like tasbeeh. Through knowledge Allaah will be known and worshiped.

Show charity and goodwill to others and it will return to enhance your own life in many wonderful ways.

Shockingly, the Bidens donated under $1,000 to all charities combined every year for the ten years prior to 2008.

Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.

Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.

Some charities treat donors like cash machines. Until now there hasn't been any effective way for them to provide a more personal or interactive giving experience.

Someone once bought me loads of clothes from a charity shop - and sent them to me in a black bin liner. That was weird. I went through it and it was full of bizarre outfits like Abba costumes.

She told her, while she kept it, 'Twould make her amiable and subdue my father Entirely to her love, but if she lost it Or made a gift of it, my father's eye Should hold her loathed and his spirits should hunt After new fancies.

Sometimes a man imagines that he will lose himself if he gives himself, and keep himself if he hides himself. But the contrary takes place with terrible exactitude.

Sometimes give your services for nothing.

Solidarity is not an act of charity, but mutual aid between forces fighting for the same objective.

Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves there?

So what? A lobbyist cheated Indian tribes out of $25 million then laundered their money through phony Christian charities trying to stop other Indian tribes from getting casinos [on screen: 'Thou Shalt Not Compete'] and bribe congressmen in the process. Know what I call that? I call that business as usual in Washington. [on screen: 'Screwing Indians']

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

That comes too late that comes for the asking.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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