Best 1073 quotes in «charity quotes» category

After Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, the belief in decent housing as a political right or social obligation was supplanted in the U.S. by the notion that suitable shelter should be an act of charity.

Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.

A Good Samaritan is not simply one whose heart is touched in an immediate act of care and charity, but one who provides a system of sustained care.

A horn of plenty spills from your hands into the starved lives of millions.

Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith.

A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity.

A large heart can be filled with very little.

Alas for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun!

All Christian worship is a witness of the resurrection of Him who liveth for ever and ever. Because He lives, "now abideth faith, hope, charity.

All knowledge is sterile which does not lead to action and end in charity.

All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.

All philanthropy — no age has seen more of it than our own — is only a savoury fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer.

All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.

All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.

All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.

All thy vexations Were but my trials of thy love, and thou Hast strangely stood the test; here, afore heaven, I ratify this my rich gift.

A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen.

Almost every Monday I have a charity thing. I like that. I do.

Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance. Almsgiving is the generosity of the rich; social aid levels up social inequalities. Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.

A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature

All zeal for a reform, that gives offence To peace and charity, is mere pretence.

A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.

As every lord giveth a certain livery to his servants, charity is the very livery of Christ. Our Saviour, Who is the Lord above all lords, would have His servants known their badge, which is love.

An apostolic missionary must have both heart and tongue ablaze with charity.

And whereas many men, by accident unevitable, become unable to maintain themselves by their labour; they ought not to be left to the Charity of private persons; but to be provided for, (as far-forth as the necessities of Nature require,) by the Lawes of the Common-wealth. For as it is Unchariablenesse in any man, to neglect the impotent; so it is in the Soveraign of a Common-wealth, to expose them to the hazard of such uncertain Charity.

An environmentalist that eats meat is like a philanthropist that won't give money to charities.

Arbitration is justice blended with charity.

As charity covers a multitude of sins before God, so does politeness before men.

As far as Martin [Luther] himself is concerned, O good God, what have we overlooked or not done? What fatherly charity have we omitted that we might call him back from such errors?

And I have found that when we Catholics, in the spirit of love and charity, declare our faith boldly and with conviction, we are more likely to find kindred spirits. This is how we must comport ourselves if we are to fulfill our Lord's command in the Gospel of John (17:21), Ut unum sint, that all may be one.

Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.

Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at the expense of the industrial and working class.

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

As concerning faith we ought to be invincible, and more hard, if it might be, than the adamant stone; but as touching charity, we ought to be soft, and more flexible than the reed or leaf that is shaken with the wind, and ready to yield to everything.

As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.

A sort of moral blackmail is exerted from both poles. The underclass, one gathers, should be dulled with charity and welfare provision lest it turn nasty. The upper class must likewise be conciliated by vast handouts, lest it lose the "incentive" to go on generating wealth.

As water collected in a tank gets pure by filtration, so accumulated wealth is preserved by being employed in charity.

As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

A survey carried out across the U.S. between 2004 and 2006 showed that frequent church- or synagogue-goers are more likely to give money to charity.

A woman's love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.

A woman who wants a charitable heart wants a pure mind.

...a young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.

Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts- O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power So to seduce!

Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.

Banks and donors and charities claimed to have had successes in Mozambique. I suspected they invented these successes to justify their existence.

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for

Beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time.

Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.

Be Charitable before wealth make thee covetous, and loose not the glory of the Mite.

Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.