Quotes About Charity

If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?

God's gifts are best used when we give them away in serving those who have less.

Jimmy Carter taught a Sunday school class throughout his presidency, winning the grudging respect of reporters who had once questioned his religious talk as a political ploy. Even so, he lost many Christians' votes to Ronald Reagan, the only U.S. president to have been divorced and who rarely attended church and gave little to charity, mainly because Reagan supported many of the favorite causes of the religious Right.

Our need to give is every bit as desperate as the poor's need to receive.

Wifehood, the house, a family they are woman's traditional concern and each in its way represents one of the other great three- faith, hope, charity - which St. Paul sets down as the virtues of earth. (For how can one rear a family without faith? Or build a roof without hope? Or remain a proper wife without charity?) They are life's most vital elements and no ordered world can endure without them.

And if we are good, we are beneficent: for all good things are beneficial. Are they not?

his jewelry was custom designed for the very rich and tasteless, people who would find it necessary to buy hundred-thousand-dollar necklaces to wear to a thousand-dollar-a-plate charity dinner, and never grasp the irony.

Blood has an oder faint but distinct, of conceit and modesty, of courage and cowardice, of charity and greed, of faith and doubt, in short the fragrance of what we might have been and the smell of what we are...

Evil can disguise itself in piety and charity

Alienated from most of his relatives, Walsh left his entire estate to a questionable charity

Addie had always considered the holidays an extra-special time of year. Magic hung in the air, and people were gentler, kinder to one another. Differences were set aside, friendships deepened, and people in general were more charitable and happier.

Doing something for someone else made you feel better about yourself.

Giving with no expectation of a return is the only way to give," he said. That is, of course, the absolute truth, although I had not thought of it before.

Religious Americans donate more and volunteer more time to charitable institutions than do secular Americans.

but there came a point when one abandoned hope for faith, and trusted fate for charity.

Yeah, I get a lot of donations. It's a lot. I'm getting money all the time.

You cannot develop a country on donations.

We all have the duty to do good.

The money I earn from films means I can help the people I want to help - you can do a lot of good if you want to.

In 2008/9 26,000 people in the U.K. relied on emergency food aid from a foodbank; which was 26,000 too many.

Real kindness seeks no return; What return can the world make to rain clouds? ~ Tiruvalluvar

But my parents believed that if you've been blessed, you have an obligation to make a positive impact on the world. Altruism must run in the family.

God likes help when helping people.

Give away all you like, but keep your bills and your temper.