Quotes About Charity

He is a Christian, and believes charity begins at home. And often it remains there.

Les philanthropes acclament bienfaiteurs de l'humanité ceux qui, pour s'enrichir en fainéantant, donnent du travail aux pauvres.

Do good things', he murmured. 'Try to make a difference.

10When you give, give generously and not with a stingy heart; for that, the LORD, your God, will bless you in all your works and undertakings.

Negentiende-eeuws concept: de caritasgedachte. Rijken moeten da armen helpen met giften - waarbij de armen wel arm dienen te blijven; hulp beperkt zich tot het leningen van materiële nood, sociale emancipatie blijft buiten beschouwing. Een caritatief denken - och god, die arme mensen - herdefinieert sociale problemen als armoedeproblemen.

To create a new business that makes money, and more significantly, employs others, and more significantly, gives a product to a customer that improves their life, is our greatest challenge, our greatest opportunity, and the greatest gift, far greater than any charity that we can give our fellow person.

Then the king will say to those on his right, "Come, you who are blessed by my Father. Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me, naked and you clothed me, ill and you cared for me." (Mt 25:34–36)

He broke down the .38, cleaned it, reassembled it. He made a list: feed, flour, ammunition, soap, beef, candles, faith, hope, charity.

A woman who loves her husband is merely paying her bills. A woman who loves her lover gives alms to the poor.

True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity.

True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and subdued, the "rejects of life," to extend their trembling hands. True generosity lies in striving so that these hands--whether of individuals or entire peoples--need be extended less and less in supplication, so that more and more they become human hands which work and, working, transform the world.

No matter the hardship, offer it up to the Holy Spirit," she enjoined me throughout my life. What did she know that she couldn't disclose that day? Then, the Holy Spirit revealed the truth. We didn't need a memorial twenty-five years ago to repair our relationship. Instead, we needed the Holy Spirit and the fruit thereof: peace, joy, charity, patience, kindness, gentleness, generosity, goodness, faithfulness, and self-control.

A selfish person will never learn the joy of giving and being a blessing to others.

True life is the understanding and support of other people, of selflessness, of charity, of kindness.

but in the seventh year you must let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor among your people may eat from the field and the wild animals may consume what they leave. Do the same with your vineyard and olive grove.

You must not strip your vineyard bare or gather its fallen grapes. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.

When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap all the way to the edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the foreign resident. I am the LORD your God.í”

Now if your countryman becomes destitute and cannot support himself among you, then you are to help him as you would a foreigner or stranger, so that he can continue to live among you.

You must not lend him your silver at interest or sell him your food for profit.

Then the Levite (because he has no portion or inheritance among you), the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow within your gates may come and eat and be satisfied. And the LORD your God will bless you in all the work of your hands.

If there is a poor man among your brothers within any of the gates in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, then you are not to harden your heart or shut your hand from your poor brother.

Instead, you are to open your hand to him and freely loan him whatever he needs.

Give generously to him, and do not let your heart be grieved when you do so. And because of this the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in everything to which you put your hand.

For there will never cease to be poor in the land; that is why I am commanding you to open wide your hand to your brother and to the poor and needy in your land.