Charity Quotes - Page 2

INGRATE, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object of charity.

Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance. So Ambrosius says, and it is also to be found in the Decretum Gratiani: The bread which you withhold belongs to the hungry: the clothing you shut away, to the naked: and the money you bury in the earth is the redemption and freedom of the penniless.

We have the right as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.

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

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

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.

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.

Peace and union are the most necessary of all things for men who live in common, and nothing serves so well to establish and maintain these as the forbearing charity whereby we put up with one another's defects.

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

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not attempt to prove that Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.

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

Charity is having patience with someone who has let us down. It is resisting the impulse to become offended easily. It is accepting weaknesses and shortcomings. It is accepting people as they truly are. It is looking beyond physical appearances to attributes that will not dim through time. It is resisting the impulse to categorize others.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

If Stephen Harper took off his shirt in public, I'm not sure he'd raise any money for charity.