Quotes About Charity

Never pretend to have money except when you are in straits. The poor man who pretends to have a bank account betters his credit and takes no risk. But the prosperous individual who counts his money in the street, forthwith will be invited to attend a charity bazaar.

a generous backer of your town's museums, schools and churches.

This is our faith: We may not always believe in ourselves, but we will never stop believing that to do good things for another in need is to see the face of God in everyone we help by sharing even the smallest bit of faith that still remains in our hearts.

The living need charity more than the dead.

If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community

Now I know in part." This lays a demand upon us that we hold the Word of God both in humility and in charity: in humility towards God and in charity towards our brethren.

The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.

no one can be compelled by law to be beneficent (though he may be taxed and this money then distributed in welfare payments)

We] believe, or assume to believe, that [we] satisfy [our] duty to [humanity] if [we] first provide fully for [our] own material wants and then pay [our] tribute to the universal provider by giving a little to the poor. But if [we] were scrupulously just there would be no poor to whom we could give alms and think that we had realized the merit of benevolence. Better than charity, better than giving of our surplus is conscientious and scrupulously fair conduct and a helping hand in need.

If I have a care in the world, I have a gift to give.

Christian charity, the compassion of centuries of civilisation, fell from her like useless ornaments, revealing her bare, arid soul. She and her children were alone in a hostile world. She needed to feed and protect them.

Christian charity, the compassion of centuries of civilization, fell from her like useless ornaments, revealing her bare, arid soul. She needed to feed and protect her children. Nothing else mattered any more.

Kindness, I've discovered, is everything.

I have a hundred-year-old aunt who aspires to sainthood, and whose only wish has been to go into the convent, but no congregation, not even the Little Sisters of Charity, could tolerate her for more than a few weeks, so the family has had to look after her. Believe me, there is nothing so insufferable as a saint, I wouldn't sic one on my worst enemy.

Esto sirve para tranquilizarnos la conciencia, hija —explicaba a Blanca—. Pero no ayuda a los pobres. No necesitan caridad, sino justicia.

No. Charity, like Socialism, is an invention of the weak to exploit the strong and bring them to their knees.        I don't believe in your theory of the weak and the strong, Jaime replied.        That's the way it is in nature. We live in a jungle.

pretendieron regalarle ropa a Valdivia y otros capitanes, pero no hay peor ofensa para un español que recibir caridad.

Son implacables, predican amor, justicia y caridad, y para imponerlas cometen atrocidades.

También en esas ocasiones, la niña escribía con asombrosa intuición, que las obras de caridad no podían mitigar la monumental injusticia.

La caridad, igual que su socialismo, es un invento de los débiles para doblegar y utilizar a los fuertes.

llevaba ahora a Blanca a ver a los pobres, cargada de regalos y consuelos. —Esto sirve para tranquilizarnos la conciencia, hija —explicaba a Blanca—. Pero no ayuda a los pobres. No necesitan caridad, sino justicia.

The Isabel Allende Foundation

Esto sirve para tranquilizarnos la conciencia, hija -explicaba Blanca-. Pero no ayuda a los pobres, No necesitan caridad, sino justicia

This is to assuage our conscience, darling," she would explain to Blanca. "But it doesn't help the poor.