Quotes About Charity

It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice.

The Harriet Tubman Home became the only charity outside New York City dedicated to the shelter and care of African Americans in the state. The main brick building, John Brown Hall, also known as the John Brown Infirmary

entertaining friends, and using your money to spread largesse, sometimes even in a way that wouldn't touch your emotions.

The Lord loveth a cheerful giver. He also accepteth from a grouch.

There is no wrong way to perform an act of kindness.

The people with the least to give always give the most. Haven't you noticed that?

The people with the least to give always give the most.

Strictly speaking,' said the King of Fairies between mouthfuls, 'I'm leasing you this food on a limited, bite-by-bite basis and a generous payment-deferral plan. I'd have thought someone would have told you about Fairy food. You always pay, lad. I'm not running a charity delicatessen.

I'm quite civilized, I promise,' Manythanks sniffed, smiling. 'Wairwulves are cultured. We have choirs and charity races and rotary clubs. It's when we're human that you must take care.

Charity sees the need not the cause.

There is no such thing as social justice. Only God can balance things out, and we are not God. But honest and decent men can fight for and establish equal justice. There is no such thing as collective salvation. We, however, are going to be judged on how we treat our fellow brothers and sisters. Thus we must serve them, help them with charity toward all. "Malice toward none," Lincoln said. God said it slightly differently – vengeance is mine.

If you're forcing and mandating people to act in a certain way, then it's not really "benevolence" or "charity"; it's effectively nothing more than tyranny, and tyranny never produces a well-functioning, happy society.

It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself.

The remedy for most marital stress is not in divorce. It is in repentance and forgiveness, in sincere expressions of charity and service. It is not in separation. It is in simple integrity that leads a man and a woman to square up their shoulders and meet their obligations. It is found in the Golden Rule, a time-honored principle that should first and foremost find expression in marriage.

What is there to be found of that gravity, humility, meekness, piety or charity requisite to so glorious a pretence?... But a perpetual eructation there is of humane passions, a vain ostentation of mistaken learning, and a causeless picking of controversie.

Charity sees the need, not the cause.

To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better.

It's good to be blessed. It's better to be a blessing.

People are marvelous in their generosity if they just know the cause is there.

As some one has said, they do everything for the poor except get off their backs

Christ told the rich young man to sell all he had," Ernest said bitterly. "The Bishop obeyed Christ's injunction and got locked up in a madhouse. 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.

I confess I began to grow incensed at this happy crowd streaming by, and to extract a sort of satisfaction from the London statistics which demonstrate that one in every four adults is destined to die on public charity, either in the workhouse, the infirmary, or the asylum.

The population of London is one-seventh of the total population of the United Kingdom, and in London, year in and year out, one adult in every four dies on public charity, either in the workhouse, the hospital, or the asylum. When the fact that the well-to-do do not end thus is taken into consideration', it becomes manifest that it is the fate of at least one in every three adult workers to die on public charity.

Mercanti della carità, andate ad imparare dai poveri, perché solo i poveri sono caritatevoli. Loro non danno né negano dal loro sovrappiù, perché di sovrappiù non ne hanno. Loro danno, non negano mai [...]. Dare un osso al cane non è carità. Carità è spartire l'osso col cane avendo fame quanto lui.