Charity Quotes

One might lay down as a postulate: All conceptions of God which are incompatible with a movement of pure charity are false. All other conceptions of him, in varying degree, are true.

Even for charity I always give priority to education because I always teach young people - knowledge is your real companion, your life long companion, not fortune. Fortune can disappear.

I’d like to own Microsoft shares until I either give something to charity or I die.

Tax deductible, That's what you are: Tax deductible. Just like my car, like a gift to local charity, you give my 1040 clarity

Someone once bought me loads of clothes from a charity shop - and sent them to me in a black bin liner. That was weird. I went through it and it was full of bizarre outfits like Abba costumes.

What good being object of charity? Give away, ne'er turn to ask in return, Should there be the wealth treasured in thy heart.

Love and charity for the whole human race, that is the test of true religiousness.

The Jivanmukta ('the living free' or one who knows) alone is able to give real love, real charity, real truth, and it is truth alone that makes us free.

We may convert every house in the country into a charity asylum, we may fill the land with hospitals, but the misery of man will still continue to exist until man's character changes.

Have charity towards all beings. Pity those who are in distress. Love all creatures. Do not be jealous of anyone. Look not to the faults of others.

The champion's management says let's do this for real, for charity. Rocky says no but decides to be true to himself even though he's going to be berated by everyone. Just to compete, not to win.

It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end. This is the only permissible form of charity.

Honest men live on charity in their age; the almshouses are full of men who never stole a copper penny. Honest men are the fools and the saints.

Let us never forget that if we wish to die like the Saints we must live like them. Let us force ourselves to imitate their virtues, in particular humility and charity.

When Charity is deeply rooted in the soul it shows itself exteriorly: there is so gracious a way of refusing what we cannot give, that the refusal pleases as much as the gift.

Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship.

Reform, like charity, must begin at home.

A woman who wants a charitable heart wants a pure mind.

Alas for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun!

I have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford.

The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.

Reaching into someone else's pocket to assist one's fellow man hardly qualifies as charity.

Around the child bend all the threeSweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity.Around the man bend other faces;Pride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces.

That's the trouble with our charities; we are always saving somebody away off, when the fellow next to us ain't eating.

Charity, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Next to putting it in a bank, men like to squander their superfluous wealth on those to whom it is sure to be doing the least possible good.

The highest flights of charity, devotion, trust, patience, bravery to which the wings of human nature have spread themselves, have been flown for religious ideals.

Where has the Scripture made merit the rule or measure of charity?.

We may not substitute charity for godliness; but there is room for the Divine love in the heart which has been touched by the human.

Gently to hear, kindly to judge.

An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye; Give him a little earth for charity!

All thy vexations Were but my trials of thy love, and thou Hast strangely stood the test; here, afore heaven, I ratify this my rich gift.

My charity is outrage, life my shame; And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage!

Fortune reigns in gifts of the world.

Beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time.

I am not in the giving vein today.

Under the colour of commending him I have access my own love to prefer; But Silvia is too fair, too true, too holy, To be corrupted with my worthless gifts.

Gloucester, we have done deeds of charity, made peace of enmity, fair love of hate, between these swelling wrong-incensed peers.

Heaven would that she these gifts should have, and I to live and die her slave.

Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice.

I hope one day I will host my own charity event to give back to society.

The greatest charity you can contribute to is yourself. Instead of spending a dollar to help feed hungry children, why not spend that dollar on hair gel so you can get the perfect cowlick?

It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.

Children have but little charity for each other's defects.

If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.

Hard times' is a phrase the English love to use, when speaking of Africa. And it is easy to forget that Africa's 'hard times' were made harder by them.

So may the New Year be a happy one to you, happy to many more whose happiness depends on you!

I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need, though it be your example which leaves them far behind. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do not merely abandon it to them.

Charity is the entrance to the garden.