Best 1073 quotes in «charity quotes» category

My charity is in the business of helping firefighters in any way that we can. For instance, after 9/11 we were the second-fastest charity to raise and distribute money to the widows and surviving family members of the 343 firefighters who died that day.

My charity is outrage, life my shame; And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage!

My favorite charity is the Womens Refugee Commission and the Nomi network.

My grandmother always said, 'when you receive a paycheck, you always have to put a certain amount to your savings, and 10 percent right away to charity.'

My little brother is autistic, so I would love to be involved in a charity for autism, but I haven't found the right one yet.

My priority going forward is to be able to be involved in things like the farm and fighting hunger events, and then doing things to give back to charity, and staying involved in agriculture and farming, and building that.

Neutrality in things good or evil is both odious and prejudicial; but in matters of an indifferent nature is safe and commendable. Herein taking of parts maketh sides, and breaketh unity. In an unjust cause of separation, he that favoreth both parts may perhaps have least love of either side, but hath most charity in himself.

Never do I close my door behind me without being conscious that I am carrying out an act of charity towards myself.

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

Nothing leads more directly to the breach of charity, and to the injury and molestation of our fellow-creatures, than the indulgence of an ill temper.

Objects of charity are not guests.

Occasionally the very youngness of the young moved him to charity--they had no sense of the swiftness of life, nor of its limits. The years would pass like weeks, and loves would pass too, or else grow sour.

My reluctant charity shames both me and the recipient.

No amount of money given in charity, nothing but the abandonment of this hateful trade, can atone for this great sin against God, Israel and Humanity.

No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

Not only does charity begin at home. Everything begins at home, including spirituality.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

No work of charity can be more productive of good to society than the careful instruction of women.

One applauds the industry of professional philanthropy. But it has its dangers. After a while the private heart begins to harden. We fling letters into the wastebasket, are abrupt to telephoned solicitations. Charity withers in the incessant gale.

One of the things that I encourage for anybody who is interested in their own charity or philanthropy is to start from where you are and what has mattered to you.

On the essentials, unity. On the nonessentials, liberty. In everything, charity.

On the last day, when the general examination takes place, there will be no question at all on the text of Aristotle, the aphorisms of Hippocrates, or the paragraphs of Justinian. Charity will be the whole syllabus.

On why he has donated $600 million to selected charities. I simply decided I had enough money.

Organized charity itself is. . . the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives, delinquents and dependents

O Sacrament of Love! O sign of Unity! O bond of Charity! He who would have Life finds here indeed a Life to live in and a Life to live by.

Our charity is to be cordial...something that renews, invigorates and warms. Such should be the effect of our love for each other.

Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
 all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.

One might lay down as a postulate: All conceptions of God which are incompatible with a movement of pure charity are false. All other conceptions of him, in varying degree, are true.

Our possessions are wholly in our performances. He owns nothing to whom the world owes nothing.

Our zeal is always guided by charity. Everything is done with strength and gentleness.

Oxytocin infusion increases generosity in unilateral monetary transfers by 80 percent [and] increases donations to charity by 50 percent.

People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.

...perhaps charity is the kind of beauty that we comprehend the best because we miss it the most.

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home.

O how unspeakable is this Sacrament which sets our affections ablaze with charity. ... It is the fulfillment of Christ's Mystical Body.

Paying good wages is not charity at all-it is the best kind of business.

Peace and union are the most necessary of all things for men who live in common, and nothing serves so well to establish and maintain these as the forbearing charity whereby we put up with one another's defects.

People are always pleased to indulge their religiosity when it allows them to stand in judgment of someone else, licenses them to feel superior to someone else, tells them they are more righteous than someone else. They are less enthusiastic when religiosity demands that they be compassionate to someone else. That they show charity, service and mercy to everyone else.

People-to-people charity is more efficient, less costly, more human and compassionate, and more likely to inspire change and self-sufficiency in the beneficiary.

. . . . [P]ersons who love very much, easily take offense at trifles. No doubt your excessive affection for me makes you a little diffident about mine. But there is no harm done; I hope you will soon be over this slight jealousy and be convinced that nothing can change the genuine affection Our Lord has given me for you

Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.

Philanthropy, charity, giving voluntarily and freely... call it what you like, but it is truly a jewel of an American tradition.

Practicing charity is the best way to evangelize.

Private charity can apply 'tough love' but government charity can't.

Private charity discourages poverty while public subsidies encourage it.

Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of civil or religious policy has originated them; they form its highest praise and characteristic feature.

Reaching into someone else's pocket to assist one's fellow man hardly qualifies as charity.

Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.