Charity Quotes - Page 5

Now Christianity sounded good at first to the naive convert. Love, peace and charity - what's wrong with that? I'll tell you what's wrong - a series of unprecedented horrors perpetrated by so-called Christians: The Inquisition, the Conquistadores, the American Indian wars, slavery, Hiroshima and the present-day Bible Belt.

As far as Martin [Luther] himself is concerned, O good God, what have we overlooked or not done? What fatherly charity have we omitted that we might call him back from such errors?

The best kind of charity is to help those who are willing to help themselves.

Christian life consists of faith and charity

Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.

Show charity and goodwill to others and it will return to enhance your own life in many wonderful ways.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others.

Forgiveness is the best charity. (It is easy to give the poor money and goods when one has plenty, but to forgive is hard; but it is the best thing if one can do it.)

Charity is ... a universal remedy against discord, and an holy cement for mankind.

[L]ove is inventive to infinity.

Faith, hope, and love remain. But the greatest of these is love.

The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.

Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.

But charity is a very complicated thing. Its important to find an area where you can really help and you can feel the results. Charity is not like feeding pigeons in the square. It is a process that requires professional management.

It is not the magnitude of our actions, but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.

We are obligated to be more scrupulous in fulfilling the commandment of charity than any other positive commandment because charity is the sign of a righteous man.

The spirit of the world encloses four kinds of spirits, diametrically opposed to charity--the spirit of resentment, spirit of aversion, spirit of jealousy and the spirit of indifference.

I am inspired by honest people who don't cheat others. To me the famous are those who are kind to fellow human beings and dedicate their life to charity.

Everyone wants charities to spend as little as possible on overhead. That's backwards. Overhead is what drives growth. If charities can't grow, they can't solve problems. So overhead is a good thing. And I'm overhead.

Our zeal is always guided by charity. Everything is done with strength and gentleness.

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.

Happiness is a wondrous commodity: the more you give, the more you have.

Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.

Faith is knowing and thinking those truths: charity is willing and doing them.