Charity Quotes

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up. New Test.

Bible

Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, they have their reward. But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth. Mathew 6:2-3

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Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

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The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give.

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You can no more give what you haven't learned than you can come back from a place you've never been.

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When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.

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Because they did not see merit where they should have seen it, people, to express their regret, will go and leave a lot of money to the very people who will be the first to throw stones at the next person who has anything to say and finds a difficulty in getting a hearing.

Samuel Butler

The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?

Jean de la Bruyere

You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.

Robert Collier

You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving -- and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it -- and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return.

Robert Collier

Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter, which is the brain's computer cables that hook up the different brain departments.

Temple Grandin

The rich world likes and wishes to believe that someone, somewhere, is doing something for the Third World. For this reason, it does not inquire too closely into the motives or practices of anyone who fulfills, however vicariously, this mandate.

Christopher Hitchens

Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.

Oscar Wilde

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

Jim Rohn

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Walter Benjamin

Charity ain't giving people what you wants to give, it's giving people what they need to get.

Terry Pratchett

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.

Lawrence Durrell

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

Arthur Ashe

we make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Norman Macewan