Charity Quotes - Page 22

Classic is our daring, classic our cowardice. Classic is our cruelty, classic our charity.

The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.

For he that feeds men serveth few; He serves all who dares be true.

But you too, help one another: help one another always. One another. In this way, by helping one another, we will do some good.

...because with us what is highest must be at the service of others.

In a word: charity cannot be neutral, antiseptic, indifferent, lukewarm or impartial! Charity is infectious, it excites, it risks and it engages! For true charity is always unmerited, unconditional and gratuitous!

I send them my warmest encouragement to persevere in the patience and charity of Christ.

One applauds the industry of professional philanthropy. But it has its dangers. After a while the private heart begins to harden. We fling letters into the wastebasket, are abrupt to telephoned solicitations. Charity withers in the incessant gale.

Charities are really good. To a certain extent, the ones you pick are arbitrary.

In my own life, I do not live like an effective altruist. An effective altruist would really disapprove of my life. I don't give enough to charity and I still have both my kidneys.

Charity is an eternal debt and without limit.

Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off?

A charity ball is like a dance except it's tax deductible.

We live in a society which salves its conscience more by helping the interestingly unfortunate than the dull deserving.

There's always hope... even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity.

Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.

I once had a letter from a man who asked to do something very weird. He told me he wanted to sit on my shoulders and for me to then walk around his town to raise money for charity. He described himself as being 6ft and I was thinking, 'I'm only 5ft 4in, and you want to sit on my shoulders?' How bizarre.

I am sure that if somebody is giving a sum to charity, he or she should be encouraged to do so by the authorities because the spirit in which we encourage people to give has permeated our society.

The charity of good women is such that their 'love makes no parade'; they are not glad 'when others go wrong'; they are too busy serving to sit statusfully about, waiting to be offended.

I don't want to be a celebrity who's trying to like say, «look at this charity work I'm doing».

The able bodied poor don't want or need charity.... All they need is financial capital.

If you are looking for vocations, as a community have adoration every day. Once the Missionaries of Charity started daily adoration, their vocations doubled

One ought not to encourage beggars, and yes, you are right, it is far better to donate to charities that address the causes of poverty rather than to him, a creature who is merely its symptom.

My reluctant charity shames both me and the recipient.

To insure the continuity of philanthropy, we must instill in kids the values and attitudes that will enable them to see charity as a vital part of their lives.