Charity Quotes

Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Charity.

To give requires good sense.

To give requires good sense.

Charity

When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.

When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.

Antoine De SaintExupery

Charity

To enjoy a good reputation give publicly, and steal privatel

To enjoy a good reputation give publicly, and steal privately.

Charity

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

Miguel de Cervantes

Charity

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever

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.

Antoine De SaintExupery

Charity

Charity sees the need, not the cause.

Charity sees the need, not the cause.

Charity

It didnÂ´t occur to me until later that thereÂ´s another tru

It didnÂ´t occur to me until later that thereÂ´s another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is still greed.

Charity Greed Hypocrecy

When I give I give myself.

When I give I give myself.

Charity

I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I

I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. In other words, if our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements, etc, is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving away too little. If our charities do not at all pinch or hamper us, I should say they are too small. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditure excludes them.

Charity

It is false zeal to keep truth while wounding charity

It is false zeal to keep truth while wounding charity

Charity Zeal

Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you, a

Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you, and do it fast.

Edward Noyes Westcott

Charity

The twentieth century French dramatist Jean Anouilh wrote a

The twentieth century French dramatist Jean Anouilh wrote a play about Beckett which was made into a film in the 1960

Melvyn Fancy, Copyright, Decembe

Charity

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or t

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Charity

The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that eve

The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work.

Charity

If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became

If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but I believe the gutters would simply be running with the blood of philanthropists.

G. K. Chesterton

Charity

Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not givi

Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.

Charity

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceiv

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.

Charity

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Charity

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Charity

Trust not the horse, O Trojans. Be it what it may, I fear th

Trust not the horse, O Trojans. Be it what it may, I fear the Grecians even when they offer gifts.

Charity