Best 1073 quotes in «charity quotes» category

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 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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 more good I do, the more money has come in. You have to learn to give. You're not born to give. You're born selfish.

The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.

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

The great thing is these days I no longer have to work for a living and that all of the things that I'm able to do where money is paid as compensation for whatever it be, I'm able to donate all of that to charity. That's a wonderful position to find yourself in at the latest stages of your life and I'm proud to have walked the path that I have and I'm proud to be able to continue working and to be able to give away what I earn to some very good causes here in the Southwest.

The guiding motive of mankind should be charity towards men, charity towards all animals.

The Lord loveth a cheerful giver. He also accepteth from a grouch.

The miracle is this - the more you give, the more you have.

The most fundamental winning formula is to bet on human decency and be patient.

The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.

The proper education of poor children [is] the ground-work of almost every other kind of charity.... Without this foundation firstlaid, how much kindnessis unavoidably cast away?

The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity.

The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.

The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms

The question is not, do we go to church; the question is, have we been converted. The crux of Christianity is not whether or not we give donations to popular charities but whether or not we are really committed to the poor.

The ransoming of captives has been practiced by Jews for many centuries and has been regarded as a greater obligation than charity for the poor.

There are so many angles to follow up: government incompetence, sophisticated charity scams, how insurance companies treat victims, construction of the levees, who will start ripping off the billions of dollars available in new contracts. Every single one of these stories is going to be a big one.

There can be no Christianity where there is no charity

There are those who give little of the much which they have - and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their gifts unwholesome.

There are three things being a celebrity is good for: raising money for charity, dinner reservations and tee times.

There are too many people, and too few human beings.

There are tens of thousands of charities and hundreds of thousands, getting towards millions, of people now using it. And when I flip through it, I'm just blown away by people.

There is always scope for football to be more charitable but a lot happens already. Personally I have always been passionate about charity.

There is always enough self-love hidden beneath the greatest devoutness to set limits on charity.

There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge.

The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.

There is no act of charity that is not accompanied by justice or that permits us to do more than we reasonably can.

There is small merit in mocking goodness, tweaking charity; it is much more comic to deprive people of their petty little existence for no reason at all, for a lark.

There is so much wretchedness in the world, that we may safely take the word of any mortal professing to need our assistance; and, even should we be deceived, still the good to ourselves resulting from a kind act is worth more than the trifle by which we purchase it.

The richest gifts we can bestow are the least marketable. We hate the kindness which we understand.

The sahara desert the Rapunzel the charity the gifted tales.

There is so much indifference in the face of suffering. May we overcome indifference with concrete acts of charity.

There's always hope... even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity.

There's nothing more rewarding than making a difference doing charity work or being able to be there for a friend.

These two criteria are like the pillars of true love: deeds, and the gift of self.

The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.

The source of justice is not vengeance but charity.