Quotes About Charity

It's a strange principle but it's true, nevertheless, that those who give the most have the most of whatever they give.

Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure . . . will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you." LUKE 6:38

El amor es exclusivo; la caridad no lo es: preferir a una persona entre otras es un pecado contra la caridad.

Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.

freely ye have received, freely give.

The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.

The aim of life is self-development. To realise one's nature perfectly-that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course they are charitable. They feed the hungry, and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked.

Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.

It is not my experience that life's difficulties make people more charitable.

What if the purpose of human charity wasn't to protect the weak -- which seems pretty anti-Darwinian anyway -- but to preserve the mad? Don't they get special treatment in most primitive societies? ( . . .) You have to be careful about who you do away with. It could be that some part of our understanding comes in vessels incapable of sustaining themselves. What do you think? Maybe you'd have to be crazy to think that.

It is not my experience that life's difficulties make people more charitable.

The point is not: take all thou hast and give to the poor, but use all thou hast to encourage the industry and give work to the poor.

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And yet this does not touch the kernel of the problem. Human advancement is not a mere question of almsgiving, but rather of sympathy and cooperation among classes who would scorn charity.

I pray you, then, receive my little book in all charity, studying my words with me, forgiving mistake and foible for sake of the faith and passion that is in me, and seeking the grain of truth hidden there.

that we need to be charitable to one another because it's the right thing to do, "not because it allows us to rack up mileage points for our trip to some imaginary heaven.

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, when I give I give myself.

As long as there is still one beggar around, there will still be myth.

The most acceptable service to God is doing good to man.

the best way to serve God was doing good to others.

spend most of his time so that he may glorify God by doing good for others, and getting of good for himself." The Lord, quite conveniently, smiled

Numerous reports attest to the hospitality of African communities. Within any village or chiefdom, the codes of hospitality and a spirit of charity prevented the extremes of poverty and abandonment which one finds in richer and supposedly more mature societies.

May the open hand be filled the fullest.

The highest kindness is to give without condition.