Charity Quotes - Page 33

• Paying good wages is not charity at all-it is the best kind of business.

  Henry Ford

  Wages, Kind

  Henry Ford (1922). “Ford Ideals: Being a Selection from "Mr. Ford's Page" in The Dearborn Independent”

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• I love to give to charity, but I don't want to be charity. This is why I have so much trouble with grace.

  Donald Miller

  Giving, Grace, Want

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.54, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Changing the world doesn't require much money. Again, think in terms of empowerment and not charity. How much were Gandhi's teachers paid? How much did it cost to give Dr. Martin Luther King the books that catalyzed his mind and actions?

  Tim Ferriss

  Teacher, Kings, Book

  "The Karmic Capitalist: Should I Wait Until I’m Rich to Give Back?" by Tim Ferriss, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 9, 2007.

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• I believe in Christian charity, but I don't believe in Christian tolerance... When we become so tolerate that we lead people into mental fog and spiritual darkness, we are not acting like Christians; we are acting like cowards!

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Spiritual, Believe

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• If we're going to improve the environment, the first thing we should do is duck the government. The second thing we should do is quit being moral. Screw the rights of nature. Nature will have rights as soon as it get duties. The minute we see birds, trees, bugs, and squirrels picking up litter, giving money to charity, and keeping an eye on our kids at the park, we'll let them vote.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Kids, Eye, Squirrels

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.201, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. This has been repeatedly and quite lately demonstrated. Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the Government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character, while it prevents the indulgence among our people of that kindly sentiment and conduct which strengthens the bonds of a common brotherhood.

  Grover Cleveland

  Character, Government, Expectations

  Grover Cleveland (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: Chronology, Documents, Bibliographical Aids”

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• Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Beautiful, Order, Tea

  Andrew Forbes, David Henley, Okakura Kakuzo “The Illustrated Book of Tea”

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• What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue.

  Ayn Rand

  Fighting, Ideas, Moral

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.89, Penguin

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• It is by desiring to grow in love that we receive the Holy Spirit, and the thirst for more charity is the effect of this more abundant reception.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Spirit, Holy

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.190, Shambhala Publications

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• All men who live only according to their five senses, and seek nothing beyond the gratification of their natural appetites for pleasure and reputation and power, cut themselves off from that charity which is the principle of all spiritual vitality and happiness because it alone saves us from the barren wilderness of our own abominable selfishness.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Cutting, Men

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.172, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Today, our actions must be motivated only by our intense desire to achieve a just and lasting peace. The compassion and charity of the American people should be reflected in this legislation, though sadly, they are silenced.

  Nick Rahall

  Compassion, People, Desire

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• It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege. Anxiety, sickness, suffering, or danger, now and then, with a foregoing of the common conveniences and charities of this life, may make us pause, and cause the spirit to waver, and the soul to sink; but let this only be for a moment. All these are nothing when compared with the glory which shall be revealed in and for us. I never made a sacrifice.

  David Livingstone

  Sacrifice, Anxiety, Soul

  David Livingstone (1858). “Cambridge Lectures: Together with a Prefatory Letter by Sedgwick”, p.23

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• When caring for your neighbor becomes a compulsory obligation imposed by government instead of voluntary, charity turns to confiscation and freedom to achieve to involuntary servitude. To liberals, compassion seems to be defined by how many people are dependent on the government; to conservatives, it's defined by how many people no longer need help. One promotes dependence, the other freedom, responsibility and achievement.

  Star Parker

  Freedom, Responsibility, Caring

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• Charity wins awards and applause, but joining the poor gets you killed.  People do not get crucified for charity.  People are crucified for living out a love that disrupts the social order, that calls forth a new world.  People are not crucified for helping poor people.  People are crucified for joining them.

  Shane Claiborne

  Winning, Order, Awards

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.86, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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• The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune.

  Grover Cleveland

  Citizens, Countrymen, Fellows

  Grover Cleveland (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: Chronology, Documents, Bibliographical Aids”

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• True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.

  Hosea Ballou

  Emulation, Spontaneous, Offspring

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• The Jews could be put down very plausibly as the most unpleasant race ever heard of. As commonly encountered they lack any of the qualities that mark the civilized man: courage, dignity, incorruptibility, ease, confidence. They have vanity without pride, voluptuousness without taste, and learning without wisdom. Their fortitude, such as it is, is wasted upon puerile objects, and their charity is mainly a form of display.

  H. L. Mencken

  Pride, Men, Vanity

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• The union of a sect within itself is a pitiful charity; it's no  concord of Christians, but a conspiracy against Christ; and they  that love one another for their opinionative concurrence, love  for their own sakes, not their Lord's.

  Joseph Glanvill

  Christian, Unions, Sake

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• After 911, the US Government engaged in mock investigations and shut down many small Islamic charities and organizations, giving the appearance of action in the so-called 'War on Terror.' Why did they harbor, support and resource Fethullah Gulen's $25 billion madrassa-and-mosque-establishment efforts throughout the Central Asian region and the Balkans?

  Sibel Edmonds

  War, Islamic, Government

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• Oxytocin infusion increases generosity in unilateral monetary transfers by 80 percent [and] increases donations to charity by 50 percent.

  Paul J. Zak

  Oxytocin, Generosity, Brain

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• The love of truth is the stimulus to all noble conversation. This is the root of all the charities. The tree which springs from it may have a thousand branches, but they will all bear a golden and generous fruitage.

  Orville Dewey

  Truth, Spring, Roots

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• Charity is unconscious of itself, there is no accumulation first and then distribution. It is like the flower - natural, open, spontaneous.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Inspirational, Life, Flower

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti 1934-1935: What Is Right Action”, Editorial Kier

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