Quotes About Charity

Mendiguitos a mí, caridad cristiana! Odiando al rico pero eso sí, empeñándose en seguir de pobres y pariendo más...

The Teenage Cancer Trust does incredible work supporting and caring for teenagers and young adults with cancer, and it's a cause that is really close to me and my family.

The aesthetic came along the way, I think - just through experimenting, and going on tour, and trying stuff out on stage, having fun with it, and not taking it too seriously. If I had a ballgown at home, I'd wear it onstage. If I found something in a charity shop, I'd wear it. That's where it grew from - just wanting to play dress-up.

If abnegation has indeed so many charms for you, why do you fail to practice it in private life? Society will be grateful to you, for someone, at least, will reap the fruit; but to desire to impose it upon mankind as a principle is the very height of absurdity, for the abnegation of all is the sacrifice of all, which is evil erected into a theory.

Give prayerfully... give joyfully...and ask God to use your gifts to help others in the name of Jesus.

God says it is our duty as Christians to take care of widows and orphans and to help the poor within the Christian society . . .And Jesus said, "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me" Matthew 25:40 KJV].

Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.

I'm not big on Halloween. I never have been. As a kid my parents would send me out to collect for UNICEF, which just screws up the whole holiday.

Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

A lot of charity is driven on pity. No one needs pity. A lot of people just need access to affordable capital to start or sustain businesses to support their families and their communities. And when I looked closely, the projects I lent money to through Kiva all made practical business sense.

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

I do benefits for all religions. I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.

I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.

To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.

Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice; it makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties; it doubts our concern, and it questions our commitment. Six and a half thousand Africans are still dying every day of preventable, treatable disease, for lack of drugs we can buy at any drug store. This is not about charity: This is about Justice and Equality.

Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do so.

persons who posses sense enough to earn money have sense enough to know how to give it away

rich people are coming to regard men and women who apply to them for help for worthy objects, not as beggars, but as agents for doing their work.

My experience in getting money for Tuskegee has taught me to have no patience with those people who are always condemning the rich because they are rich, and because they do not give more to objects of charity.

Then very few persons have any idea of the large number of applications for help that rich people are constantly being flooded with.

I have often heard persons condemned for not giving away money, who, to my own knowledge, were giving away thousands of dollars every year so quietly that the world knew nothing about it.

In a large degree it has been the pennies, the nickels, and the dimes which have come from the Sunday-schools, the Christian Endeavour societies, and the missionary societies, as well as from the church proper, that have helped to elevate the Negro at so rapid a rate.