Charity Quotes - Page 6

• How shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves?

  Thomas Browne

  Executioners, Charitable, Charity Begins At Home

  Sir Thomas Browne, James Thomas Fields (1862). “Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers”, p.126

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• The Lord loveth a cheerful giver. He also accepteth from a grouch.

  Catherine Hall

  Making A Difference, Cheerful, Helping

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• Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Differences

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• When our cup runs over, we let others drink the drops that fall, but not a drop from within the rim, and call it charity; when the crumbs are swept from our table, we think it generous to let the dogs eat them; as if that were charity which permits others to have what we cannot keep.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Running, Dog, Fall

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.63

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• The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Business, Men, Water

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republ”, p.206

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• A large heart can be filled with very little.

  Antonio Porchia

  Heart, Making A Difference, Littles

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.

  Benjamin Whichcote

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• The small charity that comes from the heart is better than the great charity that comes from the head.

  Ivan Panin

  Heart

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• This only is charity, to do all, all that we can.

  John Donne

  Kindness, Inspiration, Social

  John Donne, John E. Booty (1990). “John Donne: Selections from Divine Poems, Sermons, Devotions, and Prayers”, p.207, Paulist Press

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• This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Inspiration, People, Poverty

  "Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the World’s Poorest Citizens, Makes His Case". NBR Interview with Linda O’Bryon, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. March 9, 2005.

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• Public charities, foodbanks and church pantries are doing more than ever before, but they can't keep up with the need. We can never end hunger only through the wonderful work of local charities. Like other Western democracies, we must end our national problem of hunger through national and political leadership. Charity is nice for some things, but not as a way to feed a nation. We don't protect our national security through charity, and we shouldn't protect our families and children that way either.

  Jeff Bridges

  Children, Nice, Inspiration

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• Charity is commendable; everyone should be charitable. But justice aims to create a social order in which, if individuals choose not to be charitable, people still don't go hungry, unschooled or sick without care. Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance.

  Bill Moyers

  Commitment, Order, Sick

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• Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.

  C. S. Lewis

  Prayer, Helping Others, Giving

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• There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.

  Maimonides

  Kindness, Inspiration, Men

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• A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Men, Giving, Police

  "The Threepenny Opera". Play by Bertolt Brecht, 1928.

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• I have been able to travel all over the country and see many places that I probably never would have visited. I have also participated in many charity events for worthy causes.

  Rob Mariano

  Country, Travel, Events

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• Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and philanthropy, they will liberally assist in his elevation.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Race, White, People

  James Weldon Johnson (2012). “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• Earth has not a spectacle more glorious or more fair to show than this love tolerating intolerance; charity covering, as with a vail, even the sin of the lack of charity.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Covering, Earth, Sin

  Frederick William Robertson (1863). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton”, p.272, Boston : Fields, Osgood

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• 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.

  John Ruskin

  Law, Bread, Ends

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• Charity in the theater begins and ends with those who have a play opening within a week of one's own.

  Moss Hart

  Play, Theatre, Week

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• The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms

  Bertrand Russell

  Tolerance, Quality, Isms

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.160, Routledge

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• The organized charity, scrimped and iced, In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ.

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Names, Statistics, Christ

  In Bohemia In Bohemia

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• While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Yield, May

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1049, Wordsworth Editions

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• Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.

  Zhuangzi

  Men, Mind, Devotion

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• A number of girls of my acquaintance went to school to the nuns of the Congregational Nunnery, or Sisters of Charity, as they are sometimes called.

  Maria Monk

  Sister, Girl, School

  Maria Monk, Theodore Dwight, John Jay Slocum, William K. Hoyte (1836). “Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk: As Exhibited in a Narrative of Her Sufferings During a Residence of Five Years as a Novice, and Two Years as a Black Nun, in the Hotel Dieu Nunnery at Montreal”, p.10, New York : Howe & Bates

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