Quotes About Charity

The willingness to share does not make one charitable; it makes one free.

Money gives its possessor the ability to give pleasure to others.

People who claimed they were collecting money to help others often had a way of letting a good bit stick in their own pockets, or else they liked the power that spreading it about gave them, liked it far too much.

Obviously, oxytocin and vasopressin are the grooviest hormones in the universe. Pour them into the water supply, and people will be more charitable, trusting, and empathic. We'd be better parents and would make love, not war (mostly platonic love, though, since people in relationships would give wide berths to everyone else). Best of all, we'd buy all sorts of useless crap, trusting the promotional banners in stores once oxytocin starts spraying out of the ventilation system.

when the frontal cortex labors hard on some cognitive task, immediately afterward individuals are more aggressive and less empathic, charitable, and honest.

God does not need to receive, but humans need to give.

Teaching was one of the ways both rich dad and poor dad gave to others. But rich dad also gave money to his church, to charities, and to his foundation. He knew that to receive money, he also had to give it.

the most important law of money: "Give, and you shall receive." Instead, he believed in: "Receive, and then you give." In

she] had a great reputation for unselfishness because she was always giving up a lot of things she didn't want.

I think it would be charitable to believe that he was mistaken about

It's all right to have our mite boxes for the heathen, and send missionaries to them. They're far away and we don't have to associate with them. But I don't want to have to sit in a pew with a hired boy.

Dish said no more, and Augustus decided not to tease him. Occasionally the very youngness of the young moved him to charity- they had no sense of the swiftness of life, nor of its limits. The years would pass like weeks, and loves would pass too, or else grow sour. Young Dish, skilled cowhand that he was, might not live to see the whores of Ogallala, and the tender feelings he harbored for Lorena might be the sweetest he would ever have.

Occasionally the very youngness of the young moved him to charity—they had no sense of the swiftness of life, nor of its limits.

Occasionally the very youngness of the young moved him to charity—they had no sense of the swiftness of life, nor of its limits. The years would pass like weeks, and loves would pass too, or else grow sour.

Sometimes not giving is the gift. —KATE FAL

Maybe they're planning the next Project. They could mail snowballs to the weather-deprived children in Texas. They could knit goat-hair blankets for shorn sheep.

And the more you spend in blessing The poor and lonely and sad, The more of your heart's possessing Returns to you glad.

Even a smile can be charity.

Forget yourself by becoming interested in others. Do every day a good deed that will put a smile of joy on someone's face.

When paying charity, one should smile and be humble, allowing the hand of the indigent to be above the giver's hand.

Maybe it's your obligation to use your celebrity for more than just your new BMW. I use mine to make people smile.

The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.

Almost every day brings opportunities to perform unselfish acts for others. Such acts are unlimited and can be as simple as a kind word, a helping hand, or a gracious smile.

Journey quietly on your pathway to forever with charity & a smile. When you depart it will be said by all that your legacy was a better world than the one you found.