Quotes About Charity

Because, as compassionate people, we have been evaluating our charity by the rewards we receive through service, rather than the benefits received by the served.

Why do we persist in giving away food when we know it fosters dependency?" "Because it's easier!

That church teaches that infinite innocence was sacrificed for me! I do not want it! I do not wish to go to heaven unless I can settle by the books, and go there because I ought to go there. I have said, and I say again, I do not wish to be a charity angel. I have no ambition to become a winged pauper of the skies.

The Nazi effort to foster the relationship between the police and society took many forms, including a new public relations event, the 'Day of the German Police'. It was held for the first time just before Christmas in 1934, and every year across Germany thereafter around that time to show the gentler and social side of the police, who collected money for the charity 'Winter Help Works'.

The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.

So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give.

Ay! you creatures who have walked on seas of money all your foreign lives! Por caridad.

Friendliness took the place of charity, contentment the place of hope, and knowledge the place of faith.

Inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me. – Matthew 25:40

If you want to be perfect, go and sell all you have and give the money to the poor—you will have riches in Heaven.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." —Aesop, "The Lion and the Mouse

One important aspect of justice, Jose Miranda reminds us, involves the restoration of what has been stolen. Giving food to the hungry or clothing to the naked is not a charitable handout but an exercise in simple justice - restoring to the poor what is rightfully theirs, what has been taken from them unjustly.

Mother Teresa said, "there should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

La cosa más noble que puedes hacer es dar a los demás.

Look at that crowd', he said disgustedly. 'They think it's a circus.' 'And not a single coin are they donating', said Dina. 'That's not surprising. Pity can only be shown in small doses. When so many beggars are in one place, the public goes like this' - he put his fists to his eyes, like binoculars.

If those who 'gain all they can' and 'save all they can,' will likewise 'give all they can,' then the more they will grow in grace.

Out of the blue, a veteran named Charles Wood, manager of a brush factory in upstate New York, sent Grant a $500 check and offered him a $1,000 interest-free loan for a year, renewable if necessary. Grant accepted this charity with everlasting relief. In his note, Wood tipped his hat to Grant by saying the payment was "for services ending about April 1865.

The most perplexing issue for Rockefeller was how to square philanthropy with self-reliance.

He constantly reminded his son that it was easier to launch a charitable commitment than to end it.

In the course of the panic, he provided almost $6 million to fifty-eight individuals and firms who were turned down by banks and desperately needed his intervention.

Rockefeller's philanthropy was relatively discreet.

He sometimes represented poor people in criminal cases on a pro bono basis or was paid with just a barrel of ham.

To Rockefeller, the least imaginative use of money was to give it to people outright instead of delving into the causes of human misery.

For this reason, he never used his wealth to alleviate poverty directly and scorned any charity that smacked of social welfare.