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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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

What are you doing for others?

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.

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'.

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

We need more spontaneous compassion and charity.

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

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

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.

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

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

When charity requires it we must freely and mildly communicate to our neighbor not only what is his instruction, but also what is profitable for his consolation.

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 paying charity, one should smile and be humble, allowing the hand of the indigent to be above the giver's hand.

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.

When the truth emerges, then we reconcile ourselves to truth and unity and in charity or in love.

When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift.

When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.

Where there is plenty, charity is a duty, not a courtesy

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

Where were living we have a certain amount of our profit every year its like a percentage 5 or 7% or something like that that we set aside specifically for charity things.

Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need

Wherever the fear of God rules in the heart, it will appear both in works of charity and piety, and neither will excuse us from the other.

With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.

Where has the Scripture made merit the rule or measure of charity?.

Where charity keeps pace with gain, industry is blessed.

While I was rapping I was always involved in youth work - I ran music workshops for teenagers and young offenders all the time and also ran a charity for refugee kids for a time.

While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all.

Whilst in speaking of human things, we say that it is necessary to know them before we love can them. The saints on the contrary say in speaking of divine things that it is necessary to love them in order to know them, and that we only enter truth through charity.

... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.

Whoever would entitle himself after death through the merits of his Redeemer, to the noblest of rewards, let him serve God throughout life in this most excellent of all duties, doing good to our brethren. Whoever is sensible of his offences, let him take this way especially of evidencing his repentance.

Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, himself, his hungering neighbor and me.

Why should people ever take credit for charity when they must know that they cannot gain as much pleasure out of their guineas in any other fashion?

With charity, money is purified. By service, our actions are purified. With music, our emotions are purified and with knowledge our intellect is purified.

With malice towards none; with charity for all.

Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined.

Yet even differences prove helpful, where there are tolerance, charity and Truth.