Quotes About Charity

I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched.

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

We may convert every house in the country into a charity asylum, we may fill the land with hospitals, but the misery of man will still continue to exist until man's character changes.

Those who live by the labor of others are taught by religion to practice charity while on earth, thus offering them a very cheap way of justifying their entire existence as exploiters and selling them at a moderate price tickets to well-being in heaven. Religion is opium for the people. Religion is a sort of spiritual booze, in which the slaves of capital drown their human image, their demand for a life more or less worthy of man.

The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him.

Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.

I tend to do golf charity things because it's much safer and you don't get much chance of a broken arm or leg.

My first job as a kid was going from door to door selling Christmas cards, to raise money for my grandmother's hip replacement. Because, you know... You break it, you buy it.

Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.

Now there's a sight you don't see every day, huh? Two punked-out Goths throwing a Christmas party for sick children. (Doctor)

The greatest thing is not to believe in Santa Claus; it is to be Santa Claus.

Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting.

No one has ever become poor from giving.

When you with velvets mantled o'er, Defy December's tempests frore, Oh! spare one garment from your store, To clothe the poor at Christmas.

It's my new single - please buy it so we can get Christmas gifts for the kids this year.

We celebrate the birth of one who told us to give everything to the poor by giving each other motorized tie racks.

Christmas is about giving. Be outrageously generous. Have fun, enjoy the process....then keep it up all year.

I'm asking you to make at least some of your Christmas giving important.

Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

The wealthy are generally impressed with an idea, that they shall never stand in need of public charitable relief; but a little less confidence would become them better.

All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.

You'll not be in heaven if you're not leaning on the arm of someone you have helped.

The nice thing about money is that you can do good things with it. I still feel like if something needs to be done or we need to raise money for someone on death row, we can find ways to do it.

As a counterbalance to the list of seven deadly sins, the church in the Middle Ages came up with a list of seven works of mercy: to feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked, house the homeless, visit the sick, ransom the captive, bury the dead.