Best 1073 quotes in «charity quotes» category

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.

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

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 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?

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 best thing to blame ourselves when people cannot get on well with us. Boundless charity necessarily includes all or it ceases to be boundless. We must be strict with ourselves and lenient with our neighbors. For we know not their difficulties and what they overcome.

It is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity toward each other.

It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise.

It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin.

It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless.

It makes that a virtue which is not a virtue, and that a crime which is not a crime. Religion consists in a round of observances that have no relation whatever to natural goodness, but which rather exclude it by being a substitute for it. Penances and pilgrimages take the place of justice and mercy, benevolence and charity. Such a religion, so far from being a purifier, is the great corrupter of morals.

I want to be part of a different kind of celebrity, one that thinks not just about charity but policy.

It seems to me to be the best proof of an evangelical disposition, that persons are not angry when reproached, and have a Christian charity for those that ill deserve it.

It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work.

I want to do and I'm giving all the profits to charity, is to teach people to meditate. All it takes is a little bit of patience.

I want to live for something. I don't want to live to get charity food to give me enough strength to go back to get more charity food.

It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music.

It's in vogue to have a cause and give money in charity. But to actually speak up and say something like, I'm pissed about this" - that doesn't seem to be very popular unless you're writing a blog or tweeting.

I used to get taxed on my allowance. Yeah, I've been taxed since I was a little kid. And at the end of the year I had to pick a charity to donate my taxes to.

I've always respected those who tried to change the world for the better, rather than just complain about it.

I want to get the point across that you may not have money to give to a charity, whether that is Ronald McDonald House or Broadway Cares or DIFFA, but you can help RAISE money or give your time and talents.

I would like it to be a legal requirement for all businesses to be linked to a charity.

I was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a religious duty to get all I could honorably and to give all I could.

I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.

I would have none of that rigid circumspect charity which is never done without scrutiny, and which always mistrusts the truth of the necessities laid open to it.

I wouldn't dream of selling my work. I give them to friends, to charities.

Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.

I would rather have it said, 'He lived usefully,' than, 'He died rich.'

Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

Kiss is not a charity. Never, ever mix commerce and charity.

Laissez-faire capitalism, or anarchocapitalism, is simply the economic form of the libertarian ethic. Laissez-faire capitalism encompasses the notion that men should exchange goods and services, without regulation, solely on the basis of value for value. It recognizes charity and communal enterprises as voluntary versions of this same ethic. Such a system would be straight barter, except for the widely felt need for a division of labor in which men, voluntarily, accept value tokens such as cash and credit. Economically, this system is anarchy, and proudly so.

Killing time in the precinct, I find a copy of one of my early volumes in a dump-bin on the pavement outside the charity shop. The price is 10p. It is a signed copy. Under the signature, in my own handwriting, are the words, "To mum and dad".