Charity Quotes - Page 16

It makes that a virtue which is not a virtue, and that a crime which is not a crime. Religion consists in a round of observances that have no relation whatever to natural goodness, but which rather exclude it by being a substitute for it. Penances and pilgrimages take the place of justice and mercy, benevolence and charity. Such a religion, so far from being a purifier, is the great corrupter of morals.

Paying good wages is not charity at all-it is the best kind of business.

If you give money, spend yourself with it.

Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.

I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live.

Love is born of faith, lives on hope, and dies of charity.

To give is to receive.

Kiss is not a charity. Never, ever mix commerce and charity.

Earth has not a spectacle more glorious or more fair to show than this love tolerating intolerance; charity covering, as with a vail, even the sin of the lack of charity.

All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.

All philanthropy — no age has seen more of it than our own — is only a savoury fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer.

Little I ask And that little is not granted." There are few crumbs In this world any more.

There are tens of thousands of charities and hundreds of thousands, getting towards millions, of people now using it. And when I flip through it, I'm just blown away by people.

Hope is a leg of a 3-legged stool with Faith and Charity.

In the meantime, we see there are charities that spend much of their scarce resources that should be going directly to the children to overcome this gulf that separates them from both the donors and the needy.

Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.

On why he has donated $600 million to selected charities. I simply decided I had enough money.

Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.

Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home.

Mankind was my business... charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.

Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.

Charity is suppose to cover up for a multitude of sins.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance. Faith-based charity provides crumbs from the table; faith-based justice offers a place at the table.

The spread of online information isn't just good for charities. It's also good for donors. You can go to a site like Charity Navigator, which evaluates nonprofits on their financial health as well as the amount of information they share about their work.