There is always enough self-love hidden beneath the…

Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion.

— Honore de Balzac

“He never read a book but often thought about God; it was unavoidable, a matter of simplicity and awe. The starry sky, the soughing…

— Knut Hamsun

“To babble unintelligible prayers, to read masses, to recite rosaries, to practice ceremonies of religious worship empty of meaning, this is the conduct of…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

They would make the 'Church ' their great meeting-point, rather than the Atonement of Christ. As far as my experience goes, they have more…

— Frances Ridley Havergal

Some, like Ebenezer Scrooge in Dickens's A Christmas Carol, have a hard time loving anyone, even themselves, because of their selfishness. Love seeks to…

— James E. Faust

It's always great to be able to give back to the community.

— Nikola Vucevic

Considering community support and cost-benefit analysis, I have supported earmarks for projects of high public purpose involving such areas as higher education, alternative energy,…

— Jeff Fortenberry

It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I shall pray God to send charity into this hideous world, and sympathy for the weak, and love for the unhappy and unfortunate. I…

— John Wyndham

Both fact and logic seem to me to support the view that savings invested in privately owned economic tools of production amount to an…

— F. A. Harper

The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead. Ask about the scale of their dreams.

— Anonymous

I'm publicist, patron of nine charities, creative director, food consultant, recipe developer - and mum.

— Jack Monroe

I would have none of that rigid circumspect charity which is never done without scrutiny, and which always mistrusts the truth of the necessities…

— Jean Baptiste Massillon

In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution…

— Edmund Burke

The greatest charity you can contribute to is yourself. Instead of spending a dollar to help feed hungry children, why not spend that dollar…

— Zach Braff