Charity Quotes - Page 12

Charity is the root of all good works.

You cannot attain to charity except through humility.

A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all.

Scatter abroad what you have already amassed rather than pile up new wealth.

The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.

The Clintons want to do big worthy things, but they also want to squeeze money from rich people wherever they live on planet Earth, insatiably gobbling up cash for politics and charity and themselves from the same incestuous swirl.

It is the best thing to blame ourselves when people cannot get on well with us. Boundless charity necessarily includes all or it ceases to be boundless. We must be strict with ourselves and lenient with our neighbors. For we know not their difficulties and what they overcome.

A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen.

...a young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.

He who regards the world as he does the fortune of his own body can govern the world. He who loves the world as he does his own body can be entrusted with the world.

I have a cotillion event. Some yacht-club charity fundraiser thingy. Whitney is insisting, and Kit took her side.” Three wide smiles. “Oh shut up.

Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.

Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.

The gospel chargeth us with piety towards God, and justice and charity to men, and temperance and chastity in reference to ourselves.

There is one way whereby we may secure our riches, and make sure friends to ourselves of them,--by laying them out in charity.

This only is charity, to do all, all that we can.

Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves.

The organized charity, scrimped and iced, In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ.

I am currently doing about 30 charity auctions a year.

The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

Government charity gives the most to those who refuse to help themselves; private charity gives less.

There is small merit in mocking goodness, tweaking charity; it is much more comic to deprive people of their petty little existence for no reason at all, for a lark.

Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.