Charity Quotes - Page 25

True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.

Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.

Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera.

Our energies are often stimulated by the necessity of supporting a being weaker than ourselves.

No amount of money given in charity, nothing but the abandonment of this hateful trade, can atone for this great sin against God, Israel and Humanity.

Charity, like poetry, should be cultivated, if only for its being graceful.

Though we may sometimes unintentionally bestow our beneficence on the unworthy, it does not take from the merit of the act. For charity doth not adopt the vices of its objects.

I confess that I have hitherto indulged very little in philanthropic enterprises.... While my townsmen and women are devoted in somany ways to the good of their fellows, I trust that one at least may be spared to other and less humane pursuits. You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else. As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.

You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else.

The wonderful purity of nature at this season is a most pleasing fact.... In the bare fields and tinkling woods, see what virtue survives. In the coldest and bleakest places, the warmest charities still maintain a foothold.

You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.

Objects of charity are not guests.

Around 80 per cent of my money goes to charity.

...perhaps charity is the kind of beauty that we comprehend the best because we miss it the most.

I rode in a nine-day charity ride recently, averaged 43km a day and still finished in the lead group. I'm 38, not quite finished yet.

We need more spontaneous compassion and charity.

I'm very interested in charities. I help a lot of different charities.

In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.

I don't feel sure about doing good in any way now; everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose language I don't know.

In every human act of charity, something larger, greater, divine has come down to visit the act.

What's so great is that we're making money for AIDS in Africa. There's a lot of love and spontaneity, we're doing something creative. That's what I love about Red. It's not just a charity, "Give us money, give us money." It's being innovative. Like here's a show that you won't see anywhere else and you can come and whatever you pay for your ticket it's going somewhere. You can go and buy a pair of Armani shades, like Bono, but the money goes to Africa. It's quite cool.

Charity is a very labour-intensive virtue.

Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.

The good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end.

Flatter not thyself in thy faith to God, if thou wantest charity for thy neighbor; and think not thou halt charity for thy neighbor, if thou wantest faith to God; where they are not both together, they are both wanting; they are both dead, if once divided.