Quotes About Charity

Not federal government's job to do good deeds.

The luxury of doing good surpasses every other personal enjoyment.

A good deed is a good deed.

Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they posses, and should show their wealth to be more in doing good than merely in having it.

People can be good, people can be generous, people can be helpful. People can help those who are in need when they need it.

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

I know this for sure, that doing good actually makes you better.

Giving requires good sense. [Lat., Rest est ingeniosa dare.]

By doing good, we do well.

The way you feel about giving money to good causes has a lot to do with the way you feel about money.

Each of us has more opportunities to do good and to be good than we ever use.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions he had money as well.

It is my principle never to accept any donations from any government or any foreign funded organisation.

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

The government should not be in the business of funneling money for social services through any faith-based organization

Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.

Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.

Government charity gives the most to those who refuse to help themselves; private charity gives less.

The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern.

Philanthropy, although it's tiny compared to the government, it's 2% of the US economy, which is the largest percentage, other than the Middle East.

Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He went around doing good and being compassionate.

Doing great things for others is an awesome gift to give yourself.

Of those to whom much is given, much is asked.