Best 1073 quotes in «charity quotes» category

Dear young people, put your talents at the service of the Gospel, with creativity and boundless charity.

Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own.

Depth of understanding involves something which is more than merely a matter of deconstructive alertness; it involves a measure of interpretative charity and at least the beginnings of a wide responsiveness.

Did Charity prevail, the press would prove A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love.

Divided as we may be by religion, we are united by charity.

Does God have a reason for wanting us to be charitable, to take care of those who can't take care of themselves? Either God does or God doesn't, it's just logic. If God has a reason then there is a reason independent of God and whatever God's reason is we should figure it out for ourselves. There is a reason and God doesn't really ground morality at all. God wants us to give charity because it's the right thing to do.

Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity than any other influence in human affairs.

Do good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.

Doing charity work is always cool. It's always a good thing.

Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

Don't just put it off and think about it!

Each Jew must either give or take tzedakah [charity] for Passover.

Do you know what the actual percentage of money the Clinton Foundation has raised that they donate so far to charity is? It's like 5%. Five percent of what they have collected they have donated - and of course, nobody reports that, either.

Everything that is in the heavens, on earth, and under the earth is penetrated with connectedness, penetrated with relatedness.

Ethics is not for wimps. It's not easy being a good person. That's why it's such a lofty goal and an admirable achievement

Even the charities I give to are related to things that touch my life, like the Special Olympics. I'm not fully rational; I'm swayed by my biases and my emotions.

Everybody in life is pursuing money: left, right, charity, nonprofits, everybody's pursuing money. Everybody wants a raise. Everybody wants to improve their standard of living. Everybody wants to be rich, and especially those that go to Washington.

Earth has not a spectacle more glorious or more fair to show than this love tolerating intolerance; charity covering, as with a vail, even the sin of the lack of charity.

Even the wisdom of God hath not suggested more pressing motives, more powerful incentives to charity, than these, that we shall be judged by it at the last dreadful day.

Every deviation from the rules of charity and brotherly love, of gentleness and forbearance, of meekness and patience, which our Lord prescribes to his disciples, however it may appear to be founded on an attachment to Him and zeal for His service, is in truth a departure from the religion of Him, "the Son of Man," who "came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them.

Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.

Everyone wants charities to spend as little as possible on overhead. That's backwards. Overhead is what drives growth. If charities can't grow, they can't solve problems. So overhead is a good thing. And I'm overhead.

Faith, hope and charity - faith, hope and charity - those are the tools God gave me. Ad I keep circling around it.

Find a need and fill it.

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead

Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.

Flatter not thyself in thy faith to God, if thou wantest charity for thy neighbor; and think not thou halt charity for thy neighbor, if thou wantest faith to God; where they are not both together, they are both wanting; they are both dead, if once divided.

For charity purposes, how do I help? A lot of prospective levers and tools have come into my life.

Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.

For notwithstanding this rest and cessation from labor which is required on the Lord's day, yet three sorts of works may and ought to be performed. . . . these are works of piety, works of necessity, and works of charity.

For he that feeds men serveth few; He serves all who dares be true.

Forgiveness from others is charity; from God, grace; from oneself, wisdom.

Forgiveness is the best charity. (It is easy to give the poor money and goods when one has plenty, but to forgive is hard; but it is the best thing if one can do it.)

Fortune reigns in gifts of the world.

For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.

Generosity consists not the sum given, but the manner in which it is bestowed

Funding for faith-based charities should] be judged based on performance and results - not religion. Now, if our sin is that our religion can produce the results, then we plead guilty.

Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.

Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom.

Have Love. Not love alone for one, but man as man they brother call; and scatter like the circling sun thy charities on all.

Give nobly to indigent merit, and do not refuse your charity even to those who have not merit but their misery.

Giving is the highest expression of potency.

God bless thee; and put meekness in thy breast, Love, charity, obedience, and true duty!

Have faith, hope, and charity, that's the way to live successfully.

Government charity gives the most to those who refuse to help themselves; private charity gives less.

Happiness is a wondrous commodity: the more you give, the more you have.

Have charity towards all beings. Pity those who are in distress. Love all creatures. Do not be jealous of anyone. Look not to the faults of others.

Heaven would that she these gifts should have, and I to live and die her slave.

Heaven be their resource who have no other but the charity of the world, the stock of which, I fear, is no way sufficient for the many great claims which are hourly made upon it.

Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.