Charity Quotes - Page 22

• To desire the common good and strive towards it is a requirement of justice and charity.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Justice, Desire, Requirements

  Pope Benedict XVI (2009). “Charity in Truth”, p.15, Ignatius Press

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• Unlike solidarity, which is horizontal and takes place between equals, charity is top-down, humiliating those who receive it and never challenging the implicit power relations.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Top Down, Challenges, Relation

  "Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking Glass World". Book by Eduardo Galeano, 2000.

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• Ah, how little you know of human happiness - you comfortable and benevolent people! For happiness and unhappiness are brother and sister - or even twins who grow up together - or in your case - remain small together!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Happiness, Brother, Growing Up

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• Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.

  Aldous Huxley

  Real, Progress, Originality

  "Ends and Means: An Inquiry into the Nature of Ideals".

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• I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue.

  Lord Byron

  Shoes, Misery, Cold

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• Prejudice is the conjuror of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, over-powering reason, making strong people weak, and weak people weaker. God gave us the large-hearted charity which "beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things," which "thinketh no evil!"

  John Ross Macduff

  Strong, People, Evil

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• Love, like the opening of the heavens to the Saints, shows for a moment, even to the dullest man, the possibilities of the human race. He has faith, hope, and charity for another being, perhaps but a creation of his imagination: still it is a great advance for a man to be profoundly loving even in his imaginations.

  Arthur Helps

  Love, Race, Imagination

  "Companions of My Solitude".

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• Let us have love and more love; a love that melts all opposition, a love that conquers all foes, a love that sweeps away all barriers, a love that aboundeth in charity, a large-heartedness, tolerance, forgiveness and noble striving, a love that triumphs over all obstacles.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Love, Tolerance, Triumph

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• Freemasonry is a moral order, instituted by virtuous men, with the praiseworthy design of recalling to our remembrance the most sublime truths, in the midst of the most innocent and social pleasures, founded on liberality, brotherly love and charity.

  Andrew Jackson

  Men, Order, Remembrance

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• I hold that Christian grace abounds Where charity is seen; that when We climb to heaven, 'tis on the rounds Of love to men.

  Alice Cary

  Love, Christian, Men

  Mary Clemmer, Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary (1873). “A Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary: With Some of Their Later Poems”, p.301

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• My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Christian, Gay, Men

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• Humility: The realization of our dependence on God. I have always had strong feelings about that word regardless of what anyone's background might be. One of the common denominators of greatness is acknowledging that dependence. As power comes from Charity, power also comes from knowing who you are, a divine offspring of a divine being.

  Hyrum W. Smith

  Success, Peace, Strong

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• Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
 all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Taken, Son, Able

  Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, Julia Ward Howe, Maud Howe Elliott, Florence Marion Howe Hall (1970). “Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910”

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• We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies, Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause. Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy, and patience. We, the women of one country, will be too tender of those of another country To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Country, Husband, Taken

  Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, Julia Ward Howe, Maud Howe Elliott, Florence Marion Howe Hall (1970). “Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910”

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• On the essentials, unity. On the nonessentials, liberty. In everything, charity.

  Jack Hyles

  Unity, Liberty, Essentials

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• Without charity, there is no salvation.

  Allan Kardec

  Salvation

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• There is one kind of charity common enough among us... It is that patchwork philanthropy which clothes the ragged, feeds the poor, and heals the sick. I am far from decrying the noble spirit which seeks to help a poor or suffering fellow being... [However] what advances a nation or a community is not so much to prop up its weakest and most helpless members, but to lift up the best and the most gifted, so as to make them of the greatest service to the country.

  Jamsetji Tata

  Country, Clothes, Sick

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• If I can raise more money for charities, or get more Canadian kids to play golf, the green jacket will mean even more.

  Mike Weir

  Sports, Money, Mean

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• I think sometimes all the charities are doing is mopping up the blood. It’s a shame.

  Thom Yorke

  Thinking, Blood, Mopping Up

  "Thom Yorke’s View from the Stage". Interview with Judy Bond, www.lionsroar.com. November 1, 1998.

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• …Spread your love everywhere you go.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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• Wen you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but vether it's worth while goin' through so much to learn so little, as the charity-boy sand ven he go to the end of the alphabet, it's a matter of taste.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Marriage, Learning

  Charles Dickens (1993). “The Pickwick Papers”, p.350, Wordsworth Editions

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• Life is a magic vase filled to the brim, so made that you cannot dip from it nor draw from it; but it overflows into the hand that drops treasures into it. Drop in malice and it overflows hate; drop in charity and it overflows love.

  John Ruskin

  Life, Hate, Hands

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• Stated baldly, charity certainly means one of two things–pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mean, Two, People

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.

  Dana Rohrabacher

  Children, Struggle, Program

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• The Clintons want to do big worthy things, but they also want to squeeze money from rich people wherever they live on planet Earth, insatiably gobbling up cash for politics and charity and themselves from the same incestuous swirl.

  Maureen Dowd

  People, Earth, Cash

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