Quotes About Charity

We can't force anyone to give out to charity or predict how much we can gain from a charitable organisation.

Famously the KJV translates agap? as 'charity'. Many grumbled when modern translations replaced it with 'love'. Not many realized that the modern translations were simply reverting to what Tyndale had had in the first place.

The rules of charity and conscience are there, not to nail down a one-size-fits-all rule-book but precisely to enable mutual respect and shared worship in the absence of such a thing.

We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.

No kindness is ever wasted, nor can we ever tell how much good may come of it.

Of course, everyone had heard of the Ten Commandments, but these things, so much subtler, so embedded in the stuff of everyday human life and human interactions--this was the ultimate goal of all Jewish life: justice, kindness, charity, Holiness.

The hand that gives is above the hand that takes.

Charity and alms are recommended in every chapter of the Koran as being the most acceptable services, both to God and the Prophet.

Just as doubt, despair, and desensitization go together, so do faith, hope, and charity. The latter, however, must be carefully and constantly nurtured, whereas despair, like dandelions, needs so little encouragement to sprout and spread. Despair comes so naturally to the natural man!

He did not let yesterday hold tomorrow hostage. There was a willingness on his part to forget. Forgetting facilitates the generosity that springs from Christlike charity.

Compassion compels us to go further in love.

There are few character traits that stand out in this world more than a generous heart.

Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. Sometimes it falls on a generation to be great. YOU can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom.

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life." [ Live 8 Concert , Mary Fitzgerald Square, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2 July 2005]

Capitalism, it turns out, can achieve what charity and good intentions sometimes cannot. Microfinance has done more to bolster the status of women, and to protect them from abuse, than any laws could accomplish.

Tchítchikov deu a ela uma moedinha de cobre, e a menina foi caminhado para casa, bem contente por ter andando na boleira da caleche.

The generous and bold have the best lives.

They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball.

Learn the luxury of doing good

Desire for vision: Faith. Desire for possession: Hope. Desire for love: Charity. By expectation, God increases desire. By desire, he empties out souls. In emptying them out, he makes them more capable of receiving him. Augustine of Hippo Commentary on the First Epistle of St John, 4,6

La charité est un remède à l'angoisse. La Confession de Massoud

Christmas Gift Suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.

People forget what you kept, but they will never forget what you gave.

There's always hope... even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity.