Quotes About Charity

Let us never forget that an age prospers or dwindles in proportion to its devotion to the Holy Eucharist. This is the measure of its spiritual life and its faith, of its charity and its virtue.

Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.

Charity keepeth us in Faith and Hope, and Hope leadeth us in Charity. And in the end all shall be Charity.

Upon the streets a kitten's mew and beggar's shoe are calling and the voiceless ask to borrow yours so sweet and always falling. — Awaken, Love

Charity looks at the need and not at the cause.

Well, one of the most important things for Americans to be reminded of is that a lot of the exceptional nature of our country is founded in Judeo-Christian values that promotes individualism, personal responsibility, a strong work ethic, and a commitment to family, charity.

Some people criticized Mother Teresa for taking money from people who were later convicted of stealing. She had no way of knowing, her defenders said.

The thing I thought about doing it was it's Comic Relief and you've got to be funny. So although I did try to sing properly it obviously has hilarious results when you can't sing.

Notes pinned to babies left on church doorsteps by mothers who couldn't take care of them are preserved in the archives of the Society of Charity of New York, at the Foundling Hospital.

The old adage "Charity begins at home" means that we need to have a loving, growing image of ourselves.

I hate Hollywood fund-raisers. I am so bored going to a twenty-five million dollar house to hear a mogul say, "Good news, everyone. Tonight we've raised almost twelve thousand dollars!" You paid your gay hustler more than that, you cheap thing. Why not spare all of us the canapés, small talk and crème brûlée and just write a damn check?

The hushed winds wail with feeble moan Like infant charity.

The process of giving is without limits.

I grew up with not a lot of money and I definitely shopped at Goodwill. But even in my most unfortunate state, I was really blessed compared to a lot of the rest of the world. I had a really great chance to follow my dreams and have them actually come true.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

And you did all of this before I awakened?' 'Not all of us can afford to be layabouts ... You upper class types are all the same. Sleep until noon and then fritter your nights away.' She narrowed her eyes. 'I do not fritter my nights away.' 'Really? And what do you do at night?' 'I go to social events. Parties or galas. Sometimes a musicale. Or a charity event,' she tacked on with satisfaction. 'Well, I must retract my frittering comment in that case.' 'It's not frittering. It's surviving.

It's not a gift, but restitution, not charity but justice,' she wrote.

We shower money on generals and on nobles, we keep high-born paupers living on the national charity, we squander wealth with both hands on army and navy, on churches and palaces; but we grudge every halfpenny that increases the education rate and howl down every proposal to build decent houses for the poor. We cover our heartlessness and indifference with fine phrases about sapping the independence of the poor and destroying their self-respect.

When I decided to retire I thought I should align myself with a charity that can use my high profile.

I think, in this country, we have a problem where we view the arts as charity, and therefore, it has no value. Things in America that have value are profitable, and unless you are profitable, we don't know where to put you.

When Hobby Lobby was created in the early 1970s, I was committed to use profits to help ministry work.

I'm going to give away a lot more than half my money. I'd be happy to give that to the government if the government put together programs that were like I'm giving away to charity, in which I believe the money is effectively used to help people.

I'm not someone who funds buildings. That doesn't interest me. I'm more interested in programs.

It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world.