Charity Quotes - Page 11

There is so much wretchedness in the world, that we may safely take the word of any mortal professing to need our assistance; and, even should we be deceived, still the good to ourselves resulting from a kind act is worth more than the trifle by which we purchase it.

Charity in the theater begins and ends with those who have a play opening within a week of one's own.

That's why charity work is very selfish at the same time, because it makes you feel good.

Charity keepeth us in Faith and Hope, and Hope leadeth us in Charity. And in the end all shall be Charity.

I am blessed beyond the realms of blessedness, and easily the greatest pleasure is giving it away

Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves.

What we employ in charitable uses during our lives is given away from ourselves; what we bequeath at our death is given from others only, as our nearest relations.

For notwithstanding this rest and cessation from labor which is required on the Lord's day, yet three sorts of works may and ought to be performed. . . . these are works of piety, works of necessity, and works of charity.

Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.

Charity, vertical, humiliates. Solidarity, horizontal, helps.

A benefactor is a representative of God.

When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.

I would rather have it said, 'He lived usefully,' than, 'He died rich.'

Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom.

I really enjoy doing charity, for a good cause, it’s like the least I can do, I really enjoy that stuff. I enjoy giving back.

Charity and personal force are the only investments worth anything.

[I]t is His good pleasure that we remain always in the holy joy of His love.

Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.

You always enter God's hospital as a charity patient. You can't pay your way.

It is by desiring to grow in love that we receive the Holy Spirit, and the thirst for more charity is the effect of this more abundant reception.

How shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves?

Everything is integral and interacts with everything else. This means that nothing is itself without everything else. There is a commonality, an integrity, an intimacy of the universe with itself.

I do a lot of stuff. I mean, you know, charity work.

We hear all around us about practical religion, and analysing all that, we find that it can be brought down to one conception - charity to our fellow beings.

Depth of understanding involves something which is more than merely a matter of deconstructive alertness; it involves a measure of interpretative charity and at least the beginnings of a wide responsiveness.