Quotes About Charity

Humph! tell your Aunt Agatha, Harry, not to bother me any more with her charity appeals. I am sick of them. Why, the good woman thinks that I have nothing to do but to write cheques for her silly fads." "All right, Uncle George, I'll tell her, but it won't have any effect. Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.

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. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it. The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion--these are the two things that govern us.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

the supply of the milk of human kindness was short by several gallons

You know, with the most charitable feelings towards him, there are moments when you can't help thinking that young Bingo ought to be in some sort of a home.

beggars approached the task of trying to persuade perfect strangers to bear the burden of their maintenance with that optimistic vim which makes all the difference.

Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off?

La única palabra que describe la bondad es bondad, y no es bastante.

Help them, but don't make friends with them.

I'd have given him twice the cash if I had it on me.

On the first landing, Langdon came face-to-face with a bronze bust of Masonic luminary Albert Pike, along with the engraving of his most famous quote: What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

I gave my clothes away. How could I think about clothes when the poor people of Florida don't even have a place to live?

we have a bit of self-interest in relieving the misery of others. One school of modern economic theory, following Hobbes, argues that people give to charities in part because of the pleasure they get from imagining either the relief of those they benefit or their own relief from alleviating their sympathetic distress.

There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection. That's what I mean.

"If you lend money to one of my people who is needy, do not be like a money-lender; charge him no interest."

"They drive away the orphan's donkey and take the widow's ox in pledge."

"He who increases his wealth by exorbitant interest amasses it for another, who will be kind to the poor."

We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.

"He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins."

Unconditional love gives without expecting anything back.

There are three things that last: faith, hope and love, and the greatest of these is love.

With charity, money is purified. By service, our actions are purified. With music, our emotions are purified and with knowledge our intellect is purified.

We can benefit others through our actions by being warm and generous toward them, by being charitable, and by helping those in need.

My passion for giving is no different than yours. I give because it's in my heart to give. I give because I was taught to give at a very early age. This is how I developed my passion for giving.