Best 1073 quotes in «charity quotes» category

Do you know what the actual percentage of money the Clinton Foundation has raised that they donate so far to charity is? It's like 5%. Five percent of what they have collected they have donated - and of course, nobody reports that, either.

Each Jew must either give or take tzedakah [charity] for Passover.

Earth has not a spectacle more glorious or more fair to show than this love tolerating intolerance; charity covering, as with a vail, even the sin of the lack of charity.

Ethics is not for wimps. It's not easy being a good person. That's why it's such a lofty goal and an admirable achievement

Even the charities I give to are related to things that touch my life, like the Special Olympics. I'm not fully rational; I'm swayed by my biases and my emotions.

Even the wisdom of God hath not suggested more pressing motives, more powerful incentives to charity, than these, that we shall be judged by it at the last dreadful day.

Everybody in life is pursuing money: left, right, charity, nonprofits, everybody's pursuing money. Everybody wants a raise. Everybody wants to improve their standard of living. Everybody wants to be rich, and especially those that go to Washington.

Everything that is in the heavens, on earth, and under the earth is penetrated with connectedness, penetrated with relatedness.

Every deviation from the rules of charity and brotherly love, of gentleness and forbearance, of meekness and patience, which our Lord prescribes to his disciples, however it may appear to be founded on an attachment to Him and zeal for His service, is in truth a departure from the religion of Him, "the Son of Man," who "came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them.

Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.

Everyone wants charities to spend as little as possible on overhead. That's backwards. Overhead is what drives growth. If charities can't grow, they can't solve problems. So overhead is a good thing. And I'm overhead.

For he that feeds men serveth few; He serves all who dares be true.

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead

Find a need and fill it.

Flatter not thyself in thy faith to God, if thou wantest charity for thy neighbor; and think not thou halt charity for thy neighbor, if thou wantest faith to God; where they are not both together, they are both wanting; they are both dead, if once divided.

Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.

For charity purposes, how do I help? A lot of prospective levers and tools have come into my life.

Forgiveness from others is charity; from God, grace; from oneself, wisdom.

Faith, hope and charity - faith, hope and charity - those are the tools God gave me. Ad I keep circling around it.

Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.

Forgiveness is the best charity. (It is easy to give the poor money and goods when one has plenty, but to forgive is hard; but it is the best thing if one can do it.)

For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.

For notwithstanding this rest and cessation from labor which is required on the Lord's day, yet three sorts of works may and ought to be performed. . . . these are works of piety, works of necessity, and works of charity.

Funding for faith-based charities should] be judged based on performance and results - not religion. Now, if our sin is that our religion can produce the results, then we plead guilty.

Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.

Fortune reigns in gifts of the world.

Generosity consists not the sum given, but the manner in which it is bestowed

Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom.

God bless thee; and put meekness in thy breast, Love, charity, obedience, and true duty!

Give nobly to indigent merit, and do not refuse your charity even to those who have not merit but their misery.

Giving is the highest expression of potency.

Have charity towards all beings. Pity those who are in distress. Love all creatures. Do not be jealous of anyone. Look not to the faults of others.

Happiness is a wondrous commodity: the more you give, the more you have.

Have Love. Not love alone for one, but man as man they brother call; and scatter like the circling sun thy charities on all.

Government charity gives the most to those who refuse to help themselves; private charity gives less.

Have faith, hope, and charity, that's the way to live successfully.

Heaven be their resource who have no other but the charity of the world, the stock of which, I fear, is no way sufficient for the many great claims which are hourly made upon it.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

Heaven would that she these gifts should have, and I to live and die her slave.

Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.

Helping people doesn't have to be an unsound financial strategy.

He who has never denied himself for the sake of giving has but glanced at the joys of charity.

He who hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none.

Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.

He who regards the world as he does the fortune of his own body can govern the world. He who loves the world as he does his own body can be entrusted with the world.

How can one be compassionate if you belong to any religion, follow any guru, believe in something, believe in your scriptures, and so on, attached to a conclusion? When you accept your guru, you have come to a conclusion, or when you strongly believe in god or in a saviour, this or that, can there be compassion? You may do social work, help the poor out of pity, out of sympathy, out of charity, but is all that love and compassion?

Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope.

How can we know the true meaning of charity if we don't even know how to help those closest to us?

How marvellous it would be if, at the end of the day, each of us could say: today I have performed an act of charity towards others!

How shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves?