The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.
As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
He who gives early gives twice.
Beneficence is a duty. He who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized, at length comes really to love him to whom he has done good. When, therefore, it is said, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," it is not meant, thou shalt love him first and do him good in consequence of that love, but, thou shalt do good to thy neighbor; and this thy beneficence will engender in thee that love to mankind which is the fulness and consummation of the inclination to do good.
A charitable man is like an apple tree-he gives his fruit and is silent; the philanthropist is like the successful hen.
Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts.
Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance.
What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
Aside from higher considerations, charity often operates as a vastly wise and prudent principle-a great safeguard to its possessor. Men have committed murder for jealousy's sake, and anger's sake, and hatred's sake, and selfishness' sake, and spiritual pride's sake; but no man that ever I heard of, ever committed a diabolical murder for sweet charity's sake. Mere self-interest, then, if no better motive can be enlisted, should, especially with high-tempered men, prompt all beings to charity and philanthropy.
The practice of charity will bind us...will bind all men in one great brotherhood.
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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