Charity Quote by Emanuel Swedenborg Download Open image “True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense” — Emanuel Swedenborg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Charity Generosity
True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense. — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
True charity consists in doing good to those who do us evil, and in thus winning them over. — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
We often equate charity with visiting the sick, taking in casseroles to those in need, or sharing our excess with those who are less… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
Strangely, charity sometimes gets dismissed, as if it is ineffective, inappropriate or even somehow demeaning to the recipient. 'This isn't charity,' some donors take… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
“The purpose of any charity is simply to turn people's mirrors into windows. An outward view of the world's needs are vast in comparison… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
True charity consists in putting up with all one's neighbors fault's; never being surprised by his weakness, and being inspired by the least of… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it. — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
There is one kind of charity common enough among us... It is that patchwork philanthropy which clothes the ragged, feeds the poor, and heals… — Jamsetji Tata Copy Share Image
Charity is false, futile, and poisonous when offered as a substitute for justice. — Henry George Copy Share Image
Organized charity itself is. . . the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives,… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
charity is a calm, severe duty; it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever be considered… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Heaven is not located on high, but where the good of love is, and this resides within a person, wherever he or she might… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
All union is effected by love, and love is not love without trust. — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Seen in its own right, a loving person's inner spirit is an angel of heaven, and while we are living in the body we… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
The human race is the basis on which heaven is founded, is because man was last created, and that which is last created is… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
A person who knows all that is good and all that is true---as much as can be known---but does not resist evils, knows nothing. — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Goodness and love mould the form into their own image, and cause the joy and beauty of love to shine forth from every part… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
The essence of love is that what is ours should belong to someone else. Feeling the joy of someone else as joy within ourselves-that… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace,… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm publicist, patron of nine charities, creative director, food consultant, recipe developer - and mum. — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens. — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image