Quotes About Charity

He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord.

Blessed is he that considereth the poor.

He wouldn't give a duck a drink if he owned Lake Michigan.

A man's true wealth is the good he does in this world.

Peace is not the mere absence of war. It is a positive condition of justice. It is the sister of charity and mercy. It is the offspring of honesty and truth. It is the triumph of principle.

You're a baby, said Robert. You've been asleep all your life. It's time to wake up. Why do you think they give you charity, you and the children? Because they think you are harmless, your eyes aren't opened, you don't see the truth around you.

The deaf people there with balloons, holding them up and feeling the vibrations of the balloons to the Germs, all these fuckin' great bands, and using these balloons and dancing around. For a tough old punk, it just made your heart -- it gave you that beautiful feeling. They loved the music, and we were making money for them.

Give a man a fish and you'll feed him for a day. Give him a religion and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.

Practice charity without holding in mind any conceptions about charity, for charity after all is just a word.

Smith you don't realize it's a privilege to practice giving presents to others. The way he did it was charming; there was nothing glittery and Christmasy about it, but almost sad, and sometimes his gifts were old beat-up things but they had the charm of usefulness and sadness of his giving.

But what's all this giving of ourselves, what's there to give that'll help anybody

Times have changed since Christ's day. A rich man to-day who gives all he has to the poor is crazy. There is no discussion. Society has spoken.

Twitter is just like posting old-fashioned press releases, and it can be very effective in promoting your business interests and charity work.

In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people.

There are different types of people in this world, and I am the type of person who loves to give.

I wasn't the typical pageant girl - I was a little more nerdy, and they gave me a voice. I created the Queen of the Universe pageant, which is charity-based, to benefit UNESCO. For me, the most important thing is that contestants have a charity-based platform or charity ambition.

I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.

With Stand Up To Cancer, every penny goes to Cancer Research UK. You are playing with people's lives. I knew I needed to get as much money as possible.

I am President of Coeliac UK, and apart from supporting Stand Up to Cancer, I want to raise awareness about coeliac disease. It's an autoimmune disease - people often think it's an allergy - and it can affect you very seriously.

The UK public have repeatedly shown enormous generosity to those in need.

I've said that the era of the inevitable closure of community hospitals is over because I want community hospitals increasingly to become community health hubs where you have the physios, some of the day cases, the GPs, mental health services and some of the charity-provided services like Aid UK.

It's not that I am against the rich giving money to charities. I'm all for it, and we should think of ways of encouraging more of it. But I also believe that states, rather than individuals, are ultimately a better bet for delivering a fair and just world and reconciling differing interests.

It's time to re-think charity. It's time to give charity the big-league freedoms we really give to business. The fight for these freedoms must be our new cause, because without them, all of our causes are ultimately lost.

You know my mother during her lifetime was unable to set up a foundation for the arts. She always had that idea and did help the arts in many other ways but never was able to set up her own foundation, so we did it in her name after her passing.