Best 1073 quotes in «charity quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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 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 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 play bad golf for good charities like the LA Police.

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

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

I think I was the beneficiary of a little bit of charity.

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

It fills me with joy to realize that I can lay down my life daily for God, that I can sacrifice it willingly for Him. I may not be a martyr for the faith, but I can be a martyr of charity.

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.

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.

I think sometimes all the charities are doing is mopping up the blood. It’s a shame.

It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities.

I think the legacy we leave is our family. I don't think it's money. I don't think it's - I'm not saying that charity isn't a great thing. I just think that it's my family. Even now I look and I think, God, I'm lucky if I lost it all.

It is a deed of greater charity to give a bit of bread to the poor in the time of high prices and famine, than a whole loaf in the time of fertility and abundance.

It is easier to give all your goods to feed the poor, or not to have any goods - only your virtues, to boast of - than it is to judge the rich with charity.

It is by desiring to grow in love that we receive the Holy Spirit, and the thirst for more charity is the effect of this more abundant reception.

It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than to earn it in the first place.

[I]t is His good pleasure that we remain always in the holy joy of His love.

It is not the magnitude of our actions, but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.

It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.

It is quite fitting that charity should begin at home ... but then it should not end at home; for those that help nobody will find none to help them in time of need.

It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end. This is the only permissible form of charity.

It is significant that it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism.