Best 1073 quotes in «charity quotes» category

Beneficence is a duty. He who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized, at length comes really to love him to whom he has done good. When, therefore, it is said, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," it is not meant, thou shalt love him first and do him good in consequence of that love, but, thou shalt do good to thy neighbor; and this thy beneficence will engender in thee that love to mankind which is the fulness and consummation of the inclination to do good.

Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.

But charity is a very complicated thing. Its important to find an area where you can really help and you can feel the results. Charity is not like feeding pigeons in the square. It is a process that requires professional management.

But I want to start a family one day, and be involved in more charities, helping children.

But there are many, and I'm a supporter of a great deal of charities.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to those we give, to Jove is lent.

Capital formation is the greatest charity of all.

Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship.

Charity cures heartaches.

Charity in the theater begins and ends with those who have a play opening within a week of one's own.

Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often; but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom honored.

Charity isn't about pity, it is about love.

Charity and devotion differ no more, the one from the other, than the flame from the fire.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

Charity is ... a universal remedy against discord, and an holy cement for mankind.

Charity is false, futile, and poisonous when offered as a substitute for justice.

Charity is great, but the moment you say it is all, you run the risk of running into materialism.

Charity is not a potency of the soul, because if it were it would be natural. Nor is it a passion, because it is not in a sensitive potency in which are all passions. Nor is it a habit, because a habit is removed with difficulty; charity, however, is easily lost through one act of mortal sin. Therefore charity is not something created in the soul.

Charity is only as warm as those who administer it.

Charity is that sweet-smelling savor of Jesus Christ, which vanishes and is extinguished from the moment that it is exposed.

Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues.

Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor.

Charity, like poetry, should be cultivated, if only for its being graceful.

Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.

Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.

Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.

Charity, till then, had been conscious only of a vague self-disgust and a frightening physical distress; now, of a sudden, there came to her the grave surprise of motherhood.

Charity with a smile shows the donor's character.

Charity work shouldn't be bragged about. It's just something you're supposed to do...I do it because I feel like that's what God wanted me to do. It's as simple as that.

Chastity without charity is a lamp without oil.

Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.

Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.

Charity should be abolished; and be replaced by justice.

Charity, vertical, humiliates. Solidarity, horizontal, helps.

Christian life consists of faith and charity

Christy Turlington is my idol. She really is. She's a gorgeous woman inside and out. I admire her work in the charity field. She's just been able to balance it all - and gracefully, as well.

Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both.

Classic is our daring, classic our cowardice. Classic is our cruelty, classic our charity.

Charity and personal force are the only investments worth anything.

Charity is never so lovely as when one has lost consciousness that one is practicing charity. 'You mean I helped you? I was enjoying myself. I was just doing my dance. It helped you, that's wonderful. Congratulations to you. No credit to me.

Charity is taking an ugly girl to lunch.

Charity is the root of all good works.

Charities must treat donors as if they were shareholders.

Charity always feels better to the donor than to the recipient.

Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance. Faith-based charity provides crumbs from the table; faith-based justice offers a place at the table.

Charity has always been a expression of the guilty consciences of a ruling class.

Charity is a cold grey loveless thing. If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.