logo

Quotes About Charity

I'm a technologist by origin and by training, but I'm focused on philanthropy.
~ Pierre Omidyar
I was stunned to learn that more than 200,000 abandoned, neglected, or orphaned children had been sent from the East Coast to the Midwest on trains between 1854 and 1929.
~ Christina Baker Kline
The gift of giving and paying it forward has always been traits I consider to be invaluable.
~ Jon Taffer
Once I taught him how to operate an online bank account, my father began handling transactions for my foundation-related activities.
~ Pranitha Subhash
At DonorsChoose.org, you can give as little as $1 and get the same level of choice, transparency, and feedback that is traditionally reserved for someone who gives millions. We call it citizen philanthropy.
~ Charles Best
Our aim is to set some kind of benchmark and standards for transparency and governance in private philanthropy.
~ Roshni Nadar
There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.
~ Sister Mary Rose McGeady
Donate to the extent that even if you don't have food for yourself after feeding the needy
~ Sivaji
Not even let your left hand know when your right hand is donating
~ Sivaji
He, however, lost nothing by his kindness
~ Solomon Northup
Don't give out cos u have alot, give out like u don't worth what u own
~ Somy blaq
There are five prayers and five times of day for prayer; the five have five names. Let the first be truthfulness, the second honest living, and the third charity in the Name of God. Let the fourth be good will to all, and the fifth the praise of the Lord.
~ Sri Guru Granth Sahib
The body has to be utilized for service to others. More bliss can be got from serving others than from merely serving oneself.
~ Sri Sathya Sai Baba
She] personally tended the unhappy and impoverished victims of hunger and disease. I have often seen her washing wounds which others – even men – could hardly bear to look at ... She founded a hospital and gathered there the sufferers from the streets, and gave them all the attention of a nurse... How often she carried home, on her shoulders, the dirty and poor who were plagued with epilepsy! How she washed the pus from sores which others could not even behold.
~ St Jerome
So give to the poor; I'm begging you, I'm warning you, I'm commanding you, I'm ordering you.
~ St. Augustine
Our God have mercy upon us, that we may use the law lawfully, the end of the commandment, pure charity.
~ St. Augustine
But the law is good to edify, if a man use it lawfully: for that the end of it is charity, out of a pure heart and good conscience, and faith unfeigned.
~ St. Augustine
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
~ St. Augustine of Hippo
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
~ St. Augustine of Hippo
The members of Christ, many though they be, are bound to one another by the ties of charity and peace under the one Head, who is our Saviour Himself, and form one man. Often their voice is heard in the Psalms as the voice of one man; the cry of one is as the cry of all, for all are one in One.
~ St. Augustine of Hippo
Charity is the root of all good works.
~ St. Augustine of Hippo
For it is in giving that we receive.
~ St. Francis Of Assisi
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
~ St. Francis Of Assisi
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
~ St. Francis Of Assisi