Quotes About Charity

Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets.

In exchange for our humility and willingness to accept the charity of God, we are given a kingdom. And a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.

I have long been disposed to judge men by their average. If it is reasonably high, I am charitable with faults that look pretty black.

Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own.

He that distributeth not That which he hath received-- His food, his drink, his sustenance-- Unto devotee, brahman, beggar, wayfarer-- Such a low man as he, they say, is like Unto a lack of rain.

... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.

To a gratefull man give mony when he askes.

Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store. [Giving much to the poor doth increase a man's store.]

As long as there is poverty in this world, no man can be totally rich even if he has a billion dollars.

If you want to help a hungry poor man sleeping on the bench, don't ever wake him up; put some food on the bench, put some money and leave the place without looking at your back!

It is what a man does for strangers that counts more than what he does for his family.

Be good and honest to your fellow man and try to do something good for somebody.

The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.

A shamefaced man makes a bad beggar.

If the Gospel and the Apostles may be credited, no man can be a Christian without charity, and without that faith which works, not by force, but by love.

My mom has this great skiing event in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, every year for a local charity.

Giving a poor person money keeps them poorer longer...often forever; give them knowledge instead.

The sole purpose of being rich is to give away money.

Having, First, gained all you can, and, Secondly saved all you can, Then give all you can.

Many can give money to those in need, but to personally serve the needy readily, out of love, and in a fraternal spirit, requires a truly great soul.

We have the right as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.

Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country.

Be kind to all beings, this is more meritorious than bathing at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage and donating money.

What the poor need is not charity but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers. And what the rich need is a wise, honorable and just way of divesting themselves of their overabundance.