Best 1073 quotes in «charity quotes» category

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 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.

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

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?.

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

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

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.

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.

Where charity keeps pace with gain, industry is blessed.

While I was rapping I was always involved in youth work - I ran music workshops for teenagers and young offenders all the time and also ran a charity for refugee kids for a time.

While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all.

Whilst in speaking of human things, we say that it is necessary to know them before we love can them. The saints on the contrary say in speaking of divine things that it is necessary to love them in order to know them, and that we only enter truth through charity.

... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.

Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, himself, his hungering neighbor and me.

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.

Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined.

Why should people ever take credit for charity when they must know that they cannot gain as much pleasure out of their guineas in any other fashion?

With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.

With charity, money is purified. By service, our actions are purified. With music, our emotions are purified and with knowledge our intellect is purified.

With malice towards none; with charity for all.

Women are always anxious to urge bachelors to matrimony; is it from charity, or revenge ?.

Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.

Yet even differences prove helpful, where there are tolerance, charity and Truth.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

You always enter God's hospital as a charity patient. You can't pay your way.

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.

You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.

You cannot rectify grievances from the past with today's charity.

You must also remember that the world has God to govern it, and He has not left it to our charity. The Lord God is its Governor and Maintainer, and in spite of these wine fanatics and cigar fanatics, and all sorts of marriage fanatics, it would go on. If all these persons were to die, it would go on none the worse.

You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence.

You have no idea, sir, how difficult it is to be the victim of benevolence.

You know I ain't never prayed before 'Cause it always seemed to me That prayin's the same as beggin' Lord, I don't take no charity.

You only get to keep what you give away.

A country cannot afford to ignore its poor and disadvantaged. Common humanity means that we should not.

Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.

...a being, with a capacity of reasoning, would not have failed to discover, as his faculties unfolded, that true happiness arose from the friendship and intimacy which can only be enjoyed by equals; and that charity is not a condescending distribution of alms, but an intercourse of good offices and mutual benefits, founded on respect for justice and humanity.

You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?

Agape love is strengthened by the person who expresses it - not by the person who receives it. In fact, the person who receives agape love does not have to show any appreciation at all.

Africa was full of people in need of help and there had to be a limit. You simply could not help everybody; but you could at least help those who came into your life. That principle allowed you to deal with the suffering you saw. That was your suffering. Other people would have to deal with the suffering that they, in their turn, came across.

...a great man who is vicious will only be a great doer of evil, and a rich man who is not liberal will be only a miserly beggar; for the possessor of wealth is not made happy by possessing it, but by spending it - and not by spending as he please but by knowing how to spend it well. To the poor gentleman there is no other way of showing that he is a gentleman than by virtue, by being affable, well-bred, courteous, gentle-mannered and helpful; not haughty, arrogant or censorious, but above all by being charitable...and no one who sees him adorned with the virtues I have mentioned, will fail to recognize and judge him, though he know him not, to be of good stock.

A heart of gold is more valuable than a mind of diamonds.

A humanitarian seldom makes a good lover. For a lover’s world revolves around their lover, while a humanitarian’s world revolves around the world.

A hand gets way cleaner from washing, not itself, but the other hand.

A helping hand is better than a critical tongue.

all charity only tends to perpetuate the wretchedness it aims to eradicate

As much as I don’t want it to be true, the reasons I don’t do something define me as a person even more so, perhaps, than the reasons I do something.

All of those plans had been destroyed by the arrogant charity of a King.