Quotes About Charity

Walking does good to the fat and giving alms does good to the sinners; these both make one feel lighter!

No. But it's like the argument `don't donate to third-world countries because the money mightn't get to them.' People only say that because it makes them feel better about the fact that they do nothing.

Charity does not batter down the gates of a wall in the name of love or in the name of a unity that does not yet exist.

Still, clothing is a language of respects, he reminds himself, a world of manners that is the basic level of human charity.

Still, clothing is a language of respect, he reminds himself, a world of manners that is the basic level of human charity.

one need not be religious at all to believe that we should be willing to give what we seek: charitable interpretations of behavior and a willingness to offer just appraisals of conduct with an eye toward fairness.

Charity is no substitute for justice. If we never challenge a social order that allows some to accumulate wealth--even if they decide to help the less fortunate--while others are short-changed, then even acts of kindness end up supporting unjust arrangements. We must never ignore the injustices that make charity necessary, or the inequalities that make it possible.

The specific way that you spend on other people isn't nearly as important as the fact that you spend on other people.

Charity should be blind to everything but need. Our personal feelings should not determine whose starvation is legitimate.

Charity fits the economy of scarcity, because it supports the blasphemous myth that the rich are rich because they deserve to be, and their riches are theirs to deal with as they please. With such charity, we are not worthy to tell the story of manna in the wilderness, to pretend to eat together at the Lord's Supper, or claim the Year of Jubilee as our own.

let me tell you what's more immoral. Doing nothing. Sitting back in your comfortable chair in your comfortable home thinking that just because you sponsor a child in Zambia you're doing enough.

Many Christians actually believe they are being charitable by proclaiming that they "hate the sin, not the sinner," which is not dissimilar to what Christians declared just before torching women as witches to save their souls, or when Christians called for pogroms against Jews for being Christ killers.

What about the flip side of the economic ledger – the poor? Even Jesus gave up hope for them and offered only early entrance to heaven.

an example the Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op (SNFC). We have approximately twelve thousand members, and the median income for a family of four in Sacramento County is $52,000. That means that SNFC members earn $624 million per year, over half a billion dollars. We know that people at that income level give 3 percent of their gross income to charity, which means they give away $18.7 million. Who do they give it to? They give it to people that ask them for money.

Rebekah took a helicopter from their Long Island estate out to a scheduled fundraiser—with

To give a man 5 sous because he is poor and has no bread is perfect, but to give him a blowjob because he has no girlfriend is too much of a good thing: you don't have to do that.

11. How generous was this person? Generosity

You never realize how tacky your furniture is till you try to give it to the Salvation Army and they won't take it.

Los ciudadanos que anhelaban el bien de la patria están lejos; unos piden limosna en casa ajena, otros pudren tierra en fosa común.

Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.

La caridad encubre todos los pecados», decía san Pedro.

La caridad olvida, el perdón es olvido. ¡Ay del que persona sin olvidar! Es la más diabólica venganza... Hay que perdonarle al criminal su crimen, al virtuoso su virtud,al soberbio su soberbia, al humilde su humildad. Hay que perdonarles a todos el haber nacido...

That's what I've never been able to get about religion: that charmless combination of altruism and insanity. Give me a cynical, self-interested bastard any day of the week; at least you can play chicken with him and know he'll stick to the rules.

We met in a charity shop during the summer break.