Charity Quotes

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

Wherever the fear of God rules in the heart, it will appear both in works of charity and piety, and neither will excuse us from the other.

What the poor need is not charity but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers. And what the rich need is a wise, honorable and just way of divesting themselves of their overabundance.

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

True charity consists in doing good to those who do us evil, and in thus winning them over.

A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity.

Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate.

Hebrew word for "charity" tzedakah, simply means "justice" and as this suggests, for Jews, giving to the poor is no optional extra but an essential part of living a just life.

My mom has this great skiing event in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, every year for a local charity.

What the poor need is not charity, but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers.

For me, writing something in the spirit of Halloween is like Mother Teresa writing on charity and sacrifice. It's just second nature to me.

If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.

Divided as we may be by religion, we are united by charity.

The Lord loveth a cheerful giver. He also accepteth from a grouch.

. . . [I]n the kingdom of charity, one prefers to suffer some inconvenience rather than inconvenience the neighbor.

How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good.

A charity dollar has only one life; a Social Business dollar can be invested over and over again.

I don't do social events, I don't do award ceremonies, I don't do charity dinners. I live my life off-radar.

It fills me with joy to realize that I can lay down my life daily for God, that I can sacrifice it willingly for Him. I may not be a martyr for the faith, but I can be a martyr of charity.

Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.

An apostolic missionary must have both heart and tongue ablaze with charity.

While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

We are responsible for the world in which we find ourselves, if only because we are the only sentient force which can change it.

A Good Samaritan is not simply one whose heart is touched in an immediate act of care and charity, but one who provides a system of sustained care.

Even a smile can be charity.

The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.

I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity.

Hunger is not an issue of charity. It is an issue of justice.

There are too many people, and too few human beings.

I've always respected those who tried to change the world for the better, rather than just complain about it.

Fair Trade is all about improving lives, but we don't do that through charity - there is no hand out in the Fair Trade movement. People are solving their own problems through Fair Trade.

This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.

The only hope of preserving what is best, lies in the practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, a sincere respect for opinions that are not ours.

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

Sometimes those who give the most are the ones with the least to spare.

Charity should be blind to everything but need. Our personal feelings should not determine whose starvation is legitimate.

I love charity thrift stores. Amazing one-of-a-kind pieces at terrific prices, and all the money you spend goes to a good cause.

[R]eal charity doesn't mean giving away someone else's money.

Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.

Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.

Education cannot be a matter of charity, Education has to be a matter of Right.

Charity is the drowning of justice in the craphole of mercy.

At the end of our life, we shall all be judged by charity.

I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody.

Chastity without charity is a lamp without oil.

The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring to you increased happiness.

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

Cook the truth in charity until it tastes sweet.

Arbitration is justice blended with charity.