Quotes About Charity

Rockefeller devoted a great deal of his spare time to religion.

As early as 1882, he lamented to the Reverend Edward Judson that he was swamped by charitable appeals, many from Baptist causes.

For such a perfectionist, giving money away was fraught with far more nervous tension than making it.

Junior touted such philanthropies as the best way to advance the family's favorite causes.

he was frustrated that he couldn't give money away quickly enough to keep pace with his mounting income.

Much of this last gift was routed to the University of Chicago.

During Peabody's last years, the scope of his charity grew dazzling. He endowed a natural history museum at Yale University, an archaeology and ethnology museum at Harvard, and an educational fund for emancipated southern blacks. For this last, he handed over a $1-million batch of defaulted Mississippi and

Rockefeller desperately needed intelligent assistance in donating his money at a time when he could not draw on a profession of philanthropic experts.

That he would give $100,000 one minute to charity and turn around and haggle over the price of a ton of coal.

He preferred to give to religious, cultural, and educational causes, not to social welfare agencies.

This argument miscarried on several counts: Rockefeller resented any references to his infamy, felt no need to cleanse his reputation, and rebelled against any insinuation that his charity was selfishly motivated.

he only hoped his son would help as many people in his lifetime as Pierpont had in his.

There is no humanity or charity in destroying self-reliance, dignity, and self-respect.

The money you give away while you're alive is worth twice what you leave when you die.

The sin is mine and the punishment is mine. I made believe to myself for now I see it was but make-belief—that thou wast sent to me to aid in the Search. So my heart went out to thee for thy charity and thy courtesy and the wisdom of thy little years.

Is this the same teaching, when Christ says to the rich young man, Sell all that thou hast, and give it to the poor; and when the priest says, Sell all that thou hast and...give it to me?

el mundo entiende tan poco de entusiasmo como un financiero de caridad.

Is this the same teaching, when Christ says to the rich young man, Sell all that thou hast, and give it to the poor; and when the pastor says, Sell all that thou hast and – give it to me?

Let us remember the poor, and not forget kindness to strangers; above all, let us love God with all our soul, and might, and strength, and our neighbour as ourselves.

Even the least work done for others awakens the power within; even thinking the least good of others gradually instills into the heart the strength of a lion.

Our zeal is always guided by charity. Everything is done with strength and gentleness.

I want to live for something. I don't want to live to get charity food to give me enough strength to go back to get more charity food.

There is nothing that robs a righteous cause of its strength more than a millionaire's money.

This was a splendid life. Splendid in its obscurity and humility, splendid in its strength and charity, splendid in its achievements.