Charity Quotes
She wondered if it counted as being good if you did the good thing for purely selfish reasons. Probably not, but who cared. What was important was what you did, not how you felt.
Greatness isn't worldly fame and success. Laying humble service for humanity's best is true greatness.
We are all citizens of the world and we owe it to the world to make it a better place.
Even Karma rewards generosity. The good that you do must surely catch up with you!
Sit with me, and I'll not be alone.Hold my hand, and I'll not feel alone.Cry with me, and I'll no longer suffer alone.
Kind words and tender affections will not save me from this lake of woe and misery, but they may be enough of a buoy to prevent my drowning.
Dress yourself in the silks of benevolence because kindness makes you beautiful.
You see, ” she interrupted his blank stare, “it doesn’t take much effort to be kind. It only takes the ability to recognize where kindness is needed.
I will not hesitate.I will not hang back.I will go and offer my heart, for it is what I have to give...
As much as I don’t want it to be true, the reasons I don’t do something define me as a person even more so, perhaps, than the reasons I do something.
We hunger after the sweet nectar of happiness without understanding that it is harvested from the flowering field of good deeds.
For the case that one thinks he has plateaued in life, God has already set yet another peak for him to reach: and a much more challenging peak than his own, one that which is to serve others.
Jews highly value having an abundance of money for the sake of caring for their families and for helping the needy.
If you always try to measure yourself withmoney... well, it's like counting backwards, the more youkeep on, the less you'll have to show for it.
This much is true: When you are about to effect the lives of hundreds of people, Satan will do everything he can to prevent it from happening. Often pride and anger are his best assassins.
The denial of assistance is sometimes the greatest assistance. The trick is recognizing when this is the case.
Charity: begins at home and remains there. When it goes out, it's because it wants to brag about itself
We are oblivious to suffering. We are cheap with charity if it's not close to our home.
With the best of intentions you toss me a lifeline. Failing to see how a piece of rope will do me any good, I ignore it and drown.
It's frustrating when our best efforts to help people fail. But if we could see life through their weary eyes and experience their trials with the same frayed emotions, we might understand why.
The church wanted us to give out food to malnourished children, but they didn't want us to question why they were malnourished to begin with.
Charity is appeased when some rich person gives money to the poor while justice asks why one person can be that rich when so many are poor.
Our possessions are not ours- God has given them to us to cultivate, that we may make them fruitful and profitable in His Service, and so doing we shall please Him.
It's easy to take the time to stop and smell the roses but one must be willing to give of themselves enough to also stop to admire and understand life's weeds. Colleen Dougherty 10/2015
The goal for most people should not be to feel better, but to get better at feeling.
The poor you will always have with you, ' Jesus said. A warning, Emilio wondered, or an indictment?
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!
While the word charity connotes a single act of giving, justice speaks to right living, of aligning oneself with the world in a way that sustains rather than exploits the rest of creation.
The word 'religion' has acquired a very bad name among those who really love truth, justice, charity. It also exhales the musty odor of sanctimony and falsehood.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
Little deeds that proceed from charity please God and have their place among meritorious acts.
Ingratitude is a crime more despicable than revenge, which is only returning evil for evil, while ingratitude returns evil for good.
The humanitarian is a treasure hunter seeking gems of remedy and appreciation.
The principle of neighborhood at home always implies the principle of charity abroad. (pg. 260, The Idea of a Local Economy)
Social media is a powerful tool to raise awareness and create change. But we must take care not to rely upon it as a reflection of our charitable efforts.
Life is the greatest author of us all, for it writes the very best and very worst of all tales & stories...
There are times you find yourself standing by the wayside, watching as someone struggles to dig a well with a spoon, and you wish with all your heart you had arms and a shovel.
Do we ignore the needyto spite the greedy?Or share and defenddespite those who pretend?
Choose altruism, because selfishism is a lonely, cold, dark hole.
It's impossible to be involved in all situations, but there's no excuse not to be involved in something, somewhere, somehow, with someone. Make an ounce of difference.
Wanting help, I reached out to serve. Seeking happiness, I smiled and offered comfort. Yearning for love, I showed love. And now I understand. My life was never about me, it was always about you.
It takes abstract thinking to see how greed can lead to prosperity, but it takes wishful thinking to claim that violence can lead to charity.
