Quotes About Altruism

Who will not mercy unto others show,How can he mercy ever hope to have?

Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.

The private umbrella is father's favorite figure to illustrate the old way when everybody lived for himself and his family. There is a nineteenth century painting at the Art Gallery representing a crowd of people in the rain, each one holding his umbrella over himself and his wife, and giving his neighbors the drippings, which he claims must have been meant by the artist as a satire on his times.

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.

Be a blood and organ donor. All it costs is a little love.

If thou hast abundance, give alms accordingly: if thou have but a little, be not afraid to give according to that little.

Don't take your organs to heaven with you. Heaven knows we need them here.

And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest.And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger.

If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven.

When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.

Kindness is the greatest wisdom.

He saved others; himself he cannot save.

And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites.

Whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

Charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack.

Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.

Volunteers are love in motion!

Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee.

Rich in good works.

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head.

Don't think of organ donations as giving up part of yourself to keep a total stranger alive. It's really a total stranger giving up almost all of themselves to keep part of you alive.