Best 1073 quotes in «charity quotes» category

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

Too often, charity is extended to another when his actions or conduct are acceptable to us. The exhibition of charity to another must not be dependent on his performance. It should be given because of who we are-not because of how we behave.

To understand one another, and to grow in charity and truth, we need to pause, to accept and listen to one another. In this way we already begin to experience unity. Unity grows along the way, it never stands still. Unity happens when we walk together.

To wipe off the froth of falsehood from the foaming lips of inebriated virtue, when fresh from the sexless orgies of morality and reeling from the delirious riot of religion, may doubtless be a charitable office.

Traditional charity and aid are never going to solve the problems of poverty.

True charity consists in putting up with all one's neighbors fault's; never being surprised by his weakness, and being inspired by the least of his virtues.

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.

True charity is liable to excesses and transports.

True charity occurs only when there are no notions of giving, giver, or gift.

True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.

True virtue has no limits, but goes on and on, and especially holy charity, which is the virtue of virtues, and which having a definite object, would become infinite if it could meet with a heart capable of infinity.

Truth is the root of all the charities.

Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.

Under the colour of commending him I have access my own love to prefer; But Silvia is too fair, too true, too holy, To be corrupted with my worthless gifts.

Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.

Unlike solidarity, which is horizontal and takes place between equals, charity is top-down, humiliating those who receive it and never challenging the implicit power relations.

URGE is a grassroots charity. We organized to get some incubators to give to the hospital for the kids. We donate money to orphanages.

We are responsible for the world in which we find ourselves, if only because we are the only sentient force which can change it.

U.S. commitment to NATO and our commitments our European partners is not an act of charity. It's not a gift that we give to our European partners. It's actually part of our security, as well, and their security is our security.

Walk and talk in manner of love or charity, for God is love.

We are obligated to be more scrupulous in fulfilling the commandment of charity than any other positive commandment because charity is the sign of a righteous man.

... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.

We are, after all, only trustees of the wealth we possess. Without the community and its resources... there would be little wealth for anyone.

We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.

We have all been hearing from childhood of such things as love, peace, charity, equality, and universal brotherhood; but they have become to us mere words without meaning, words which we repeat like parrots, and it has become quite natural for us to do so. We cannot help it.

Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.

We hear all around us about practical religion, and analysing all that, we find that it can be brought down to one conception - charity to our fellow beings.

We have to get out of this mindset that the rich will do the business and the poor will have the charity.

We live in a society which salves its conscience more by helping the interestingly unfortunate than the dull deserving.

We need more spontaneous compassion and charity.

We may not substitute charity for godliness; but there is room for the Divine love in the heart which has been touched by the human.

We make an idol of truth itself; for truth apart from charity is not God, but His image and idol, which we must neither love nor worship.

We should have charity for what the dead say. We may disapprove of what they say, but we should not insult them and revile them knowing they cannot not defend themselves.

We only begin to realize the value of our possessions when we commence to do good to others with them. No earthly investment pays so large an interest as charity.

We see community organizations as major service providers and economic drivers rather than as recipients or distributors of charity, and coordinators of volunteers. Today they constitute what's referred to as 'the social economy'.

We should never insult others on account of their faults, for it is our duty to show charity and respect to everyone.

We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.

Western society is a society of ever richer, more varied, more productive, more self-defined, and more satisfying lives; it is a society of boundless private charity; it is a society that broke, on behalf of merit, the seemingly eternal chains of station by birth.

Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance. So Ambrosius says, and it is also to be found in the Decretum Gratiani: The bread which you withhold belongs to the hungry: the clothing you shut away, to the naked: and the money you bury in the earth is the redemption and freedom of the penniless.

What are you doing for others?

Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance.

What's so great is that we're making money for AIDS in Africa. There's a lot of love and spontaneity, we're doing something creative. That's what I love about Red. It's not just a charity, "Give us money, give us money." It's being innovative. Like here's a show that you won't see anywhere else and you can come and whatever you pay for your ticket it's going somewhere. You can go and buy a pair of Armani shades, like Bono, but the money goes to Africa. It's quite cool.

Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune.

What good being object of charity? Give away, ne'er turn to ask in return, Should there be the wealth treasured in thy heart.

Whatever troubles may be before you, accept them bravely, remembering Whom you are trying to follow. Do not be afraid. Love one another, bear with one another, and let charity guide you all your life. God will reward you as only He can.

What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue.

What the poor need is not charity, but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers.

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 Charity is deeply rooted in the soul it shows itself exteriorly: there is so gracious a way of refusing what we cannot give, that the refusal pleases as much as the gift.

What we employ in charitable uses during our lives is given away from ourselves; what we bequeath at our death is given from others only, as our nearest relations.