Best 1073 quotes in «charity quotes» category

If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.

If someone does not have a specific charity they would like to donate to, that's OK. An undesignated donation would be split up evenly amongst all the charities supported by the Annapolis Area Complex.

If Stephen Harper took off his shirt in public, I'm not sure he'd raise any money for charity.

If the Gospel and the Apostles may be credited, no man can be a Christian without charity, and without that faith which works, not by force, but by love.

If thou neglectest thy love to thy neighbor, in vain thou professest thy love to God; for by thy love to God, the love to thy neighbor is begotten, and by the love to thy neighbor thy love to God is nourished.

If we wait for some people to become agreeable or attractive before we begin to love them, we will never begin. If we are content to give them a cold impersonal 'charity' that is merely a matter of obligation, we will not trouble to understand them or to sympathize with them at all. And in that case we will not really love them, because love implies an efficacious will not only to do good to others exteriorly but also to find some good in them to which we can respond.

If younger people see older people who haven't planned ahead and have to rely on charity, the young will be more likely to provide for the future. Today when someone plans poorly, the only consequence people see is a demand for more government.

If you give money, spend yourself with it.

I have a charity called the Chain Of Hope, where we target children from poor areas where heart surgery is not available, and we offer our services.

I have a lot of charity work I'm into right now, and selling my Chakalates - supporting that whole effort.

I have a cotillion event. Some yacht-club charity fundraiser thingy. Whitney is insisting, and Kit took her side.” Three wide smiles. “Oh shut up.

I have been able to travel all over the country and see many places that I probably never would have visited. I have also participated in many charity events for worthy causes.

I hope that this man can be won over by your bearing charitably with him, advising him prudently, and praying for him. This is what I do for your family in general and for you in particular.

I have nothing else to say other than I wasn't corrupt, unfair, or greedy. I was smart when it came to making decisions for my company, and I wasn't greedy. I gave to others in charity and donated money to fund programs. I have nothing else to say.

I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence.

I like to involve myself in charities that help children and also young women in need.

I know of but one garment which the fashionable social life of this country borrows of Christianity; it is that ample garment of charity which covers a multitude of sins--particularly fashionable sins.

I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbors'defects--not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues.

I'll take no charity! What I get I'll earn by taking it. I would feel no pleasure it being given to me, any more than a huntsman would take pleasure being made a present of a dead fox, in place of getting a run across country after it.

I'm very politically active, but that has nothing to do with my charity.

I'm also very passionate about charity because it helps people who don't have as loud of a voice as I do.

I'm obviously very involved with my own charity and foundation that I work with. Obviously, I'm very passionate about that.

In a word: charity cannot be neutral, antiseptic, indifferent, lukewarm or impartial! Charity is infectious, it excites, it risks and it engages! For true charity is always unmerited, unconditional and gratuitous!

In all works of liberality something more is to be considered besides the occasion of the givers; and that is the occasion of the receivers.

In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.

In a story, the craftsmanship is fully exposed. A novel is like charity; it covers a multitude of faults.

In charity, every little bit works. You can't change the world. You can't do everything. But you sure try to bring awareness and do as much as you can.

In charity there is no excess.

In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.

I never used the press for anything except my charity.

In exchange for our humility and willingness to accept the charity of God, we are given a kingdom. And a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.

In giving alms, let us rather look at the needs of the poor than his claim to your charity.

INGRATE, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object of charity.

In the meantime, we see there are charities that spend much of their scarce resources that should be going directly to the children to overcome this gulf that separates them from both the donors and the needy.

In my own life, I do not live like an effective altruist. An effective altruist would really disapprove of my life. I don't give enough to charity and I still have both my kidneys.

. . . [I]n the kingdom of charity, one prefers to suffer some inconvenience rather than inconvenience the neighbor.

In Japan, it's strange to openly take credit for giving to charity or even to donate publicly.

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.

Instead of exhorting you to augment your charity, I will rather utter an exhortation, or at least a supplication, that you may not abuse your charity by misapplying it.

I see and hear daily that you of the Clergy preach one against another, teach one contrary to another, inveigh one against another without charity or discretion. Some be too stiff in their old mumpsimus, others be too busy and curious in their new sumpsimus. Thus all men almost be in variety and discord.

I once had a letter from a man who asked to do something very weird. He told me he wanted to sit on my shoulders and for me to then walk around his town to raise money for charity. He described himself as being 6ft and I was thinking, 'I'm only 5ft 4in, and you want to sit on my shoulders?' How bizarre.

I play bad golf for good charities like the LA Police.

Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off?

In what is necessary, unity; in what is not necessary, liberty and in all things charity.

I own about 300 pairs of shoes. When I start to go over 300, I have mini-sales from my closet and give the money to charity. It's my way of recycling; I feel like I can give back to the universe.

I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live.

I rode in a nine-day charity ride recently, averaged 43km a day and still finished in the lead group. I'm 38, not quite finished yet.

I send them my warmest encouragement to persevere in the patience and charity of Christ.

Is it not when the fall is the lowest that charity ought to be the greatest?

I think charity begins with your family and you take it from there.