Charity Quotes

Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.

Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.

The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

To live charitably means not looking out for our own interests, but carrying the burdens of the weakest and poorest among us.

To understand one another, and to grow in charity and truth, we need to pause, to accept and listen to one another. In this way we already begin to experience unity. Unity grows along the way, it never stands still. Unity happens when we walk together.

There is so much indifference in the face of suffering. May we overcome indifference with concrete acts of charity.

Prayer, humility, and charity toward all are essential in the Christian life: they are the way to holiness.

In the game of life, when the final buzzer sounds, the only stat you carry with you is the number of assists you made.

I take this opportunity to mention the strength I draw from my own family. The Duke of Edinburgh has made an invaluable contribution to my life over these past fifty years, as he has to so many charities and organisations with which he has been involved.

I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.

To move forward, you have to give back.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

Paying good wages is not charity at all-it is the best kind of business.

The other part of the true religion is our duty to man. We must love our neighbour as our selves, we must be charitable to all men for charity is the greatest of graces, greater then even faith or hope & covers a multitude of sins. We must be righteous & do to all men as we would they should do to us.

Finally, that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacifick temper of the mind, which were the characteristicks of the divine Author of our blessed religion ; without an humble imitation of whose example, in these things, we can never hope to be a happy Nation.

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

We pray that peoples of all faiths, all races, all nations, may have their great human needs satisfied; that those now denied opportunity shall come to enjoy it to the full; that all who yearn for freedom may experience its spiritual blessings; that those who have freedom will understand, also, its heavy responsibilities; that all who are insensitive to the needs of others will learn charity; that the scourges of poverty, disease and ignorance will be made to disappear from the earth, and that, in the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love.

Peace, like charity, begins at home.