Charity Quotes · Page 40

Charity should be blind to everything but need. Our personal feelings should not determine whose starvation is legitimate.

— Michael Redhill

I send them my warmest encouragement to persevere in the patience and charity of Christ.

— Pope Benedict XVI

Every year Steve Kaufman supports the charity “Love Ride” by donating a painting to this cause.

— Jay Leno

The essence of charity ... was not deciding what others needed and giving it to them, but giving them what they wanted.

— Jane Smiley

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

— John Bunyan

“The power of charity work is that it allows you to make a difference where you are, right in your community.”

— Germany Kent

Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.

— Henry David Thoreau

Forgiveness from others is charity; from God, grace; from oneself, wisdom.

— William Arthur Ward

The one thing that the Catholic Church desires, and that I seek as Bishop of Rome, “the Church which presides in charity”,…

— Pope Francis

Western society is a society of ever richer, more varied, more productive, more self-defined, and more satisfying lives; it is a society…

— Ibn Warraq

Salman is a very good friend of mine and all I wish for him is happiness. He is very helping and has…

— Ravi Kishan

He was my ultimate present my own personal miracle and I'd blown it. I'd given him away. It was like winning backstage…

— Colleen Houck

We should have charity for what the dead say. We may disapprove of what they say, but we should not insult them…

— John Lithgow

To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child,…

— Oren Arnold

To find one's special quality One must lead a life of deep humility. To serve in this way Never question but obey…

— Kathryn Lasky

Charity groped for the phone, coming up with it at last and croaking "hello" in a voice that sounded exactly like a…

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

Perhaps the sexual life is the great test. If we can survive it with charity to those we love and with affection…

— Graham Greene

It makes that a virtue which is not a virtue, and that a crime which is not a crime. Religion consists in…

— Henry M. Field

As a young woman, I dreamed of changing the world. In my twenties, I went to Africa to try and save the…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as…

— Anonymous

Tim Tebow is one of my biggest inspirations. I actually want to be able to do some of the things that he…

— Jeremy Lin

You must also remember that the world has God to govern it, and He has not left it to our charity. The…

— Swami Vivekananda

If I give five flops, I won't get a job. You have to perform at the box office when you are at…

— Abhishek Bachchan

I only started to understand the concept of "environmental protection" 14 years ago. I was an ambassador for a charity event, and…

— Li Bingbing

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

— Rita Mae Brown

The practice of charity will bind us...will bind all men in one great brotherhood.

— Conrad Hilton

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

— Dana Rohrabacher

Have Love. Not love alone for one, but man as man they brother call; and scatter like the circling sun thy charities…

— Friedrich Schiller

I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live.

— Helen Keller

I clear my wardrobe of anything I'm not wearing and give the clothes to charity.

— Domenico Dolce

I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.

— Jonathan Kozol

“We are good to others only because we think that that is, or will be, good for us.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

“There's nothing wrong in being rich and famous, so long as you're giving back more than you're keeping for yourself.”

— Abhijit Naskar

It's a really nice thing for me to give back to the community and give things that I didn't necessarily have growing…

— Sam Kerr

I always try to include charity as part of my compensation or give a percentage of what I earn to charity.

— Jill Zarin

It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music.

— John Mayer

Absolutely nothing brings out the killer instinct in the upper crust of New York Society like a charity function.

— Caleb Carr

The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.

— Cesare Pavese

“Gentlemen are a dying breed. Do your part to help out by supporting them sexually.”

— Alessandra Torre