Quotes About Charity

Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.

What is superfluous to your poor estate, distribute. This is distributive charity: a virtue so sacred that crimes against it are the forerunner of inevitable doom.

I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.

Charity only works when smart, innovative, compassionate people in the field are supported from home. The World of Children Award raises money and visibility for change makers, people doing the real work. We are a conduit for funding and resources only; all of our operating costs are covered by our generous board of governors.

When I first started working with World Vision, I would sit down and talk with them about issues that concern any part of the world. MSF told me about what was going on in North Korea. I also support AIDS and breast cancer charities.

Rather than actively love our neighbor, we unselfishly allow him to live whatever way he wants to, even if his life choices are self-destructive.  Had Lewis lived today, I think he would have said that the reigning virtue is not unselfishness but tolerance—a pseudo-virtue that also manifests itself, not in active charity, but in a negative acquiescence to the "rights" of others.

Actually, if truth be told, love and unselfishness are also received in a radically different way by the object of the proffered charity.  In the former case, the recipient is assured that another human being cares deeply about him; in the latter, he feel manipulated and used.

Love was like the heaven the church in the old days had offered to the poor to keep them from rioting.

To whom much has been given, much is expected

Another of them died last night. His body was in the bazaar this morning. It lay, with a collecting bowl at its feet, on the charpoy that is reserved for those who die without money or family to bury them. He looked desiccated and his skin had the sheen and color of the dates we eat to break our fast. There are new bodies on that charpoy every week.

Gentil é uma palavra como caridade; implica um esforço. Como aquela frase de para-choque de caminhão que fala de gestos aleatórios de gentileza. Gentil deveria ser o modo como uma pessoa é sempre, não um gesto que ela opta por fazer.

He that does good to another does good also to himself.

most people who offer their help do it to make themselves feel better, not us.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness,' he wrote. 'Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

gave half-a-crown to a beggar because I saw him yawn; he was a fellow-sufferer.

GIVE FIRST, NO MATTER WHAT YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES MAY BE.

The holy month of Ramadan for all Muslims has begun. Praising Allah through the day, from dawn to dusk we fast and pray. We pay Zakah charity for those in need, trying hard to do good deeds. Happy Ramadan!

Make giving your habit and doors of forgiveness will be opened for you.

Remember, the middle word of for-give-ness is GIVE. We received it freely from God, be ready to GIVE it to someone freely today.

An adultress passed by a dog at a well; and the dog was holding out his tongue from thirst, which was near killing him, and the woman drew off her boot, and tied it to the end of her garment, and drew water for the dog, and gave him to drink; and she was forgiven for that act.

Say: I am only a mortal like you; it is revealed to me that your God is one God, therefore follow the right way to Him and ask His forgiveness; and woe to the polytheists; (To) those who do not give poor-rate and they are unbelievers in the hereafter.

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

A person's First Obligation Should Be To Help The Member Of His Own Family Before He Can Begin Thinking Of Talking About Helping Others. Remember, Charity Begins At Home.

To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many.