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Quotes About Charity

I think the greatest of all human virtues is loyalty. It embraces all the best of the human character: courage, faith, love and charity.
~ Douglas Bader
I have a long-lasting gratitude and trust for what UNICEF does.
~ Audrey Hepburn
I have formed the Mahendra Singh Dhoni Charitable Trust which organises cricket tournaments in Jharkhand to identify promising cricketers so that we can help groom them, either in India or abroad.
~ Mahendra Singh Dhoni
People that trust wholly to other's charity, and without industry of their own, will always be poor.
~ William Temple
All of us must act selfishly to Iearn charity, must lie to learn honor, must betray and be betrayed to learn to value trust and commitment.
~ Bill Vaughan
The highest flights of charity, devotion, trust, patience, bravery to which the wings of human nature have spread themselves, have been flown for religious ideals.
~ William James
I was thrilled to support the Teenage Cancer Trust while celebrating the music of The Who - a band that changed my life.
~ Geddy Lee
A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity.
~ Saint Francis de Sales
Cook the truth in charity until it tastes sweet.
~ Saint Francis de Sales
How does God's love abide in anyone who has the world's goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help? Little children, let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action.
~ John the Apostle
Consider how the rich countries of the world are filled with hypocritical people. These are the people who complain about children who are starving in Somalia, and speak of the plight of youth in the inner city, speaking as though they are emotionally tortured by these tragedies. But then they refuse to do a thing about it. When they are approached by charities, they give only an infinitesimal fraction of their wealth.
~ Shmuley Boteach
Each Jew must either give or take tzedakah [charity] for Passover.
~ Sholem Aleichem
if you're wise, you'll drop the odd coin in a cap, here and there. Because karma has teeth, all it takes is one really bad day, and we can all fall off the edge.
~ Simon R. Green
And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust.
~ Simon Raven
That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
~ Simone Weil
The best thing you can do for yourself, is to do good to others.
~ Sipho P Nkosi
Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
One thing will always secure heaven for us-the acts of charity and kindness with which we have filled our lives. We can do no great things, only small things with great love.
~ Mother Teresa
If only one little unhappy child is made happy with the love of Jesus,...will it not be worth...giving all for that?
~ Mother Teresa
Compassion is an essential element of love.
~ Radhanath Swami
The only right stewardship is that which is tested by the rule of love.
~ John Calvin
There are only two ways: either we love-and love in action is service - or we put hatred into action and destroy.
~ Mother Teresa