Charity Quotes - Page 24

The union of a sect within itself is a pitiful charity; it's no concord of Christians, but a conspiracy against Christ; and they that love one another for their opinionative concurrence, love for their own sakes, not their Lord's.

Charity is not a government program.

Note that charity is given only to those who seek it, only to those who earnestly pray for it, only to those who are disciples of Christ. Before we can be filled with this pure love, we must start at the beginning with the first principle of the gospel. We must have "first, Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ."

A survey carried out across the U.S. between 2004 and 2006 showed that frequent church- or synagogue-goers are more likely to give money to charity.

I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.

The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window.

If the Gospel and the Apostles may be credited, no man can be a Christian without charity, and without that faith which works, not by force, but by love.

Philanthropy, charity, giving voluntarily and freely... call it what you like, but it is truly a jewel of an American tradition.

That is not true I am not a greedy man because if I was why would i donate money to charity?I care about others as well.

No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity.

How can one be compassionate if you belong to any religion, follow any guru, believe in something, believe in your scriptures, and so on, attached to a conclusion? When you accept your guru, you have come to a conclusion, or when you strongly believe in god or in a saviour, this or that, can there be compassion? You may do social work, help the poor out of pity, out of sympathy, out of charity, but is all that love and compassion?

Charity is that sweet-smelling savor of Jesus Christ, which vanishes and is extinguished from the moment that it is exposed.

I would have none of that rigid circumspect charity which is never done without scrutiny, and which always mistrusts the truth of the necessities laid open to it.

True charity is liable to excesses and transports.

Charity erodes the cultural prerequisites for a vigorous democracy.

Charity is one of those remarkable words that helps to identify the fault lines of a culture.

The essence of charity ... was not deciding what others needed and giving it to them, but giving them what they wanted.

Large charity doth never soil, but only whitens soft white hands.

True charity ought to begin in marriage, for it is a relationship that must be rebuilt every day.

Private charity can apply 'tough love' but government charity can't.

Charity is from person to person; and it loses half, far more than half, its moral value when the giver is not brought into personal relation with those to whom he gives.

Traditional charity and aid are never going to solve the problems of poverty.

I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence.

I know of but one garment which the fashionable social life of this country borrows of Christianity; it is that ample garment of charity which covers a multitude of sins--particularly fashionable sins.

Western society is a society of ever richer, more varied, more productive, more self-defined, and more satisfying lives; it is a society of boundless private charity; it is a society that broke, on behalf of merit, the seemingly eternal chains of station by birth.