Quotes About Charity

that man is a reality, mankind an abstraction; that men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they behave like the symbols for zero and the infinite, which dislocate all mathematical operations; that the end justifies the means only within very narrow limits; that ethics is not a function of social utility, and charity not a petty bourgeois sentiment but the gravitational force which keeps civilization in its orbit.

Doing good does us good.

In her growing years, Ammu had watched her father weave his hideous web. He was charming and urbane with visitors...He donated money to orphanages and leprosy clinics. He worked hard on his public profile as a sophisticated, generous, moral man. But alone with his wife and children he turned into a monstrous, suspicious bully, with a steak of vicious cunning. They were beaten, humiliated, and then made to suffer the envy of friends and relations for having such a wonderful husband and father.

It's easier to donate a few thousands to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement. It's simple to seek substitutes for competence—such easy substitutes: love, charm, kindness, charity. But there is no substitute for competence.

Charity must be voluntary.

You dont need a thousand dollars to do something good for someone, You just need the right intention for it

A lack of giving in the life of a person will bring him to poverty.

We do not have much but we give more.

Charity is fortune, avarice is poverty, peace is treasure, and happiness is wealth.

Let all that you do be done in love.

You cannot warm the hearts of people with God's love if they have an empty stomach and cold feet.

Charity is the soul of faith, makes it alive; without love, faith dies.

If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.

As long as any one has the means of doing good to his neighbours, and does not do so, he shall be reckoned a stranger to the love of the Lord.

Christianity can be summed up in the two terms faith and love...receiving from above [faith] and giving out below [love].

Do ordinary things with extraordinary love.

Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.

It is to those who have the most need of us that we ought to show our love more especially.

He alone loves the Creator perfectly who manifests a pure love for his neighbor.

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

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, when I give I give myself.

Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man's entire relation to God and to his neighbor.

Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.

Like the Good Samaritan, may we not be ashamed of touching the wounds of those who suffer, but try to heal them with concrete acts of love.