Best 1073 quotes in «charity quotes» category

Under the colour of commending him I have access my own love to prefer; But Silvia is too fair, too true, too holy, To be corrupted with my worthless gifts.

Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.

Unlike solidarity, which is horizontal and takes place between equals, charity is top-down, humiliating those who receive it and never challenging the implicit power relations.

U.S. commitment to NATO and our commitments our European partners is not an act of charity. It's not a gift that we give to our European partners. It's actually part of our security, as well, and their security is our security.

URGE is a grassroots charity. We organized to get some incubators to give to the hospital for the kids. We donate money to orphanages.

Walk and talk in manner of love or charity, for God is love.

... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.

We are, after all, only trustees of the wealth we possess. Without the community and its resources... there would be little wealth for anyone.

We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.

We are obligated to be more scrupulous in fulfilling the commandment of charity than any other positive commandment because charity is the sign of a righteous man.

We are responsible for the world in which we find ourselves, if only because we are the only sentient force which can change it.

We have all been hearing from childhood of such things as love, peace, charity, equality, and universal brotherhood; but they have become to us mere words without meaning, words which we repeat like parrots, and it has become quite natural for us to do so. We cannot help it.

We make an idol of truth itself; for truth apart from charity is not God, but His image and idol, which we must neither love nor worship.

We have to get out of this mindset that the rich will do the business and the poor will have the charity.

We live in a society which salves its conscience more by helping the interestingly unfortunate than the dull deserving.

We hear all around us about practical religion, and analysing all that, we find that it can be brought down to one conception - charity to our fellow beings.

Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.

We may not substitute charity for godliness; but there is room for the Divine love in the heart which has been touched by the human.

We need more spontaneous compassion and charity.

We see community organizations as major service providers and economic drivers rather than as recipients or distributors of charity, and coordinators of volunteers. Today they constitute what's referred to as 'the social economy'.

We only begin to realize the value of our possessions when we commence to do good to others with them. No earthly investment pays so large an interest as charity.

We should have charity for what the dead say. We may disapprove of what they say, but we should not insult them and revile them knowing they cannot not defend themselves.

We should never insult others on account of their faults, for it is our duty to show charity and respect to everyone.

Western society is a society of ever richer, more varied, more productive, more self-defined, and more satisfying lives; it is a society of boundless private charity; it is a society that broke, on behalf of merit, the seemingly eternal chains of station by birth.

Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance. So Ambrosius says, and it is also to be found in the Decretum Gratiani: The bread which you withhold belongs to the hungry: the clothing you shut away, to the naked: and the money you bury in the earth is the redemption and freedom of the penniless.

We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.

Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance.

What are you doing for others?

Whatever troubles may be before you, accept them bravely, remembering Whom you are trying to follow. Do not be afraid. Love one another, bear with one another, and let charity guide you all your life. God will reward you as only He can.

Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune.

What we employ in charitable uses during our lives is given away from ourselves; what we bequeath at our death is given from others only, as our nearest relations.

What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue.

What's so great is that we're making money for AIDS in Africa. There's a lot of love and spontaneity, we're doing something creative. That's what I love about Red. It's not just a charity, "Give us money, give us money." It's being innovative. Like here's a show that you won't see anywhere else and you can come and whatever you pay for your ticket it's going somewhere. You can go and buy a pair of Armani shades, like Bono, but the money goes to Africa. It's quite cool.

What the poor need is not charity, but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers.

What good being object of charity? Give away, ne'er turn to ask in return, Should there be the wealth treasured in thy heart.

When charity requires it we must freely and mildly communicate to our neighbor not only what is his instruction, but also what is profitable for his consolation.

When Charity is deeply rooted in the soul it shows itself exteriorly: there is so gracious a way of refusing what we cannot give, that the refusal pleases as much as the gift.

When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.

Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity.

When paying charity, one should smile and be humble, allowing the hand of the indigent to be above the giver's hand.

Where there is plenty, charity is a duty, not a courtesy

When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift.

Where has the Scripture made merit the rule or measure of charity?.

Where charity keeps pace with gain, industry is blessed.

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

Where were living we have a certain amount of our profit every year its like a percentage 5 or 7% or something like that that we set aside specifically for charity things.

When the truth emerges, then we reconcile ourselves to truth and unity and in charity or in love.

Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need

Wherever the fear of God rules in the heart, it will appear both in works of charity and piety, and neither will excuse us from the other.

Whoever would entitle himself after death through the merits of his Redeemer, to the noblest of rewards, let him serve God throughout life in this most excellent of all duties, doing good to our brethren. Whoever is sensible of his offences, let him take this way especially of evidencing his repentance.