Quotes About Charity

I love to perform at benefits and charity fundraisers.

I would like to share something that is being done extremely well by Bill Gates through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The foundation is only going to address areas which are seen by Bill or Melinda as ills of the world. The foundation has no perpetuity.

The world calls for and expects from us simplicity of life, the spirit of prayer, charity towards all, especially towards the lowly and the poor, obedience and humility... Without this mark of holiness, our word will have difficulty in touching the heart of modern man. It risks being vain and sterile.

Any charitable act is love in motion, and love needs no publicity because love just is.

Believe not when you hear that a rich person has done a charity.

Just because rich people have pledged money, it does not mean that they have actually given it to charity.

Rich people donates a pinch from one hand and picks up handful from other from the pocket of poor. #RealityOfCharity

What actions are most excellent? To gladden the heart of human beings, to feed the hungry, to help the afflicted, to lighten the sorrow of the sorrowful, and to remove the sufferings of the injured.

The best of the houses is the house where an orphan gets love and kindness.

Verily, a man teaching his child manners is better than giving one bushel of grain in alms.

May your charity increase as much as your wealth

He that feeds upon charity has a cold dinner and no supper.

He who gives charity anonymously is greater than moses.

The devil laughs when the poor donates to the rich. #CVirusTruth

The devil laughs when the poor donates to the rich.

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.

A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.

Brave men hide their deeds as decent folk their alms. They disguise them or make excuses for them.

While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate.

Wealth is not of necessity a curse, nor poverty a blessing. Wholesome and easy abundance is better than either extreme; better for our manhood that we have enough for daily comfort; enough for culture, for hospitality, for charity. More than this may or may not be a blessing. Certainly it can be a blessing only by being accepted as a trust.

remarked: [I]f our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements , etc., is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving away too little. If our charities do not at all pinch or hamper us, I should say they are too small. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditure excludes them.4

Chanakya says that like rain serves no purpose over a sea, a candle is useless in daylight, it is useless to feed a person who is not hungry and give alms to a rich person. Chanakya says that rain is required in fields and candle is required in darkness; food must be fed to a hungry person and alms must be given to the poor.

Describing religious activities and other good deeds, Chanakya says that religious activities, charity/pilgrimage, prayer/ worship and fasting/attending discourses, etc. open the way to heaven. So for cleansing your soul, while you are hale and hearty, you must perform all these activities as per the proper practices, otherwise there will be nothing left after death.