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1387 Charity quotes by 819 unique authors
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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for
— David Starr Jordan
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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead
— Saint John Chrysostom
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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made,…
— Frederick William Robertson
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Everything is integral and interacts with everything else. This means that nothing is itself without everything else. There is a commonality, an integrity, an intimacy…
— Thomas Berry
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Giving is the highest expression of potency.
— Erich Fromm
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An atheist can be charitable but not religious. But the religious man must be charitable.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Buddha taught kindness towards lower beings; and since then there has not been a sect in India that has not taught charity to all beings,…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Charity never faileth.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Charity opens the heart.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Dâna, charity. There is no higher virtue than charity. The lowest man is he whose hand draws in, in receiving; and he is the highest…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Every act of charity, every thought of sympathy, every action of help, every good deed, is taking so much of self-importance away from our little…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Every time you think of doing some charity, you think there is some beggar to take your charity. If you say, "O Lord, let the…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Have charity towards all beings. Pity those who are in distress. Love all creatures. Do not be jealous of anyone. Look not to the faults…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Love and charity for the whole human race, that is the test of true religiousness.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Mark, therefore, the ordinary theory of practical religion, what it leads to. Charity is great, but the moment you say it is all, you run…
— Swami Vivekananda
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No civilisation can grow unless fanatics, bloodshed, and brutality stop. No civilisation can begin to lift up its head until we look charitably upon one…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Religion has become to many merely a means of doing a little charity work, just to amuse them after a hard day's labour - they…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Seek no praise, no reward, for anything you do. No sooner do we perform a good action than we begin to desire credit for it.…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Test everything, try everything, and then believe it, and if you find it for the good of many, give it to all.
— Swami Vivekananda
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The guiding motive of mankind should be charity towards men, charity towards all animals.
— Swami Vivekananda
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The Jivanmukta ('the living free' or one who knows) alone is able to give real love, real charity, real truth, and it is truth alone…
— Swami Vivekananda
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There is another way in which this idea of mercy and selfless charity can be put into practice; that is, by looking upon work as…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Those who are acquainted with the literature of India will remember a beautiful old story about this extreme charity, how a whole family, as related…
— Swami Vivekananda
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We have all been hearing from childhood of such things as love, peace, charity, equality, and universal brotherhood; but they have become to us mere…
— Swami Vivekananda
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We hear all around us about practical religion, and analysing all that, we find that it can be brought down to one conception - charity…
— Swami Vivekananda
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