Quotes About Charity

If good people would but make goodness agreeable, and smile instead of frowning in their virtue, how many they would win to the good cause.

To give awkwardly is churlishness. The most difficult part is to give, then why not add a smile?

I'm like Robin Hood. I rob the rich to make these projects come alive... not really rob. It's done with a smile.

The money is the only source of smile for the poor.

There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?

Those that have an attitude of service towards others are the beauty of society.

We're going to raise a lot of money for cancer awareness, give some to the American Cancer Society and hopefully make a big difference.

Since being diagnosed, I have done a greater good for society in eight years, than in my 37 years on earth.

Donate and do not talk about it, they say you do nothing for the society; do and talk about it, they say you seek publicity!

The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

But the meaning is to walk in the ways of the Lord. As He clothes the naked so do thou also clothe the naked; as He visited the sick, so do thou also visit the sick; as he comforted mourners, so do Thou also comfort mourners" (Sotah 14a).

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

No act of kindness is ever wasted.

The covetous are poor givers.

We are ready for relationships not when we have encountered perfection, but when we have grown willing to give flaws the charitable interpretations they deserve. This is because the success or failure of a relationship doesn't hinge on whether the other is deeply flawed – they are. What matters is how we interpret their failings; how we understand the reasons why they have previously been and will again in the future be very difficult to be with.

And if we were to show up at any college humanities department in urgent search of purpose and meaning, or were to break down in a museum gallery in a quest for forgiveness or charity, we would be swiftly removed and possibly handed over to psychiatric authorities. The intensity of need and the emotional craving that religions once willingly engaged with have not been thought acceptable within the contemporary cultural realm.

Charity is called daan, alms are called bhiksha and service fee is called dakshina.

I am all about caring. I have always been like that.

Are there no prisons?

To-day if ye shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts" (Heb. 4:7). That is evangelical preaching. Is this ruthless speed? Nothing could be more ruthless than to make men think there is still plenty of time to mend their ways. To tell men that the cause is urgent, and that the kingdom of God is at hand is the most charitable and merciful act we can perform, the most joyous news we can bring.

Righteousness and generosity are inseparable. The person whose heart longs for God also longs to give to others.

Our God is known for His compassion for the needy; let us be known for it as well.

The poor are not a problem but rather an opportunity to show unconditional love.