Quotes About Charity

We have invented the distinction between justice and charity. It is easy to understand why. Our notion of justice dispenses him who possesses from the obligation of giving. If he gives all the same, he thinks he has a right to be pleased with himself.

The poor we have always with us, and the purpose of the Lord in providing the poor is to enable us of the better classes to amuse ourselves by investigating them and uplifting them and at dinners telling how charitable we are. The poor don't like it much. They have no gratitude. They would rather be uplifters themselves. But if they are taken firmly in hand they can be kept reasonably dependent and interesting for years.

I figure when I die, I can't take anything with me. So why not give?

To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune

Today I have a great life. I have three kids and a beautiful wife. I play golf every day. I give to charities. I'm in a lucky position.

Mother Teresa was asked what was the meaning of life, and she said to help other people, and I thought, 'What a strange thing to say' - but maybe it's the right thing to say.

Christian life consists in faith and charity.

Giving is the gateway to heaven.

France, stop throwing awards at me! I have so many already, give them to people who need them.

Giving is an open gate to great life.

Generosity is opens the windows of heavenly blessings.

Some people can be so generous when they give nothing away!

Never grow weary of giving, Your small contribution can make someone else's life worth living.

The greatest dividends in life are those that we give away.

The power of giving is beyond measure.

Giving is a stream of abundance.

Giving is stream of abundance.

Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity.

No man," Wilberforce wrote, "has a right to be idle." "Where is it," he asked, "that in such a world as this, health, and leisure, and affluence may not find some ignorance to instruct, some wrong to redress, some want to supply, some misery to alleviate?

If you want to fight sin by taking bread away from your own mouth, then put it in the mouth of the poor. Then we will see if you are really fasting for righteousness'sake.

Religion, charity, pure benevolence, and morals, mingled up with superstitious rites and ferocious cruelty, form in their combination institutions the most powerful and the most pernicious that have ever afflicted mankind.

In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.

As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.