Charity Quotes - page 2

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. (Francis of Assisi)
Weep for me, whoever has charity, truth and justice I did not come on this voyage for gain, honor or wealth, that is certain for then the hope of all such things was dead. I came to Your Highnesses with honest purpose and sincere zeal and I do not lie. I humbly beseech Your Highnesses that, if it please God to remove me hence, you will help me to go to Rome and on other pilgrimages. View quote
Christopher Columbus
A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally,who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him. View quote
Voltaire
There is a real diversity of talent and background on the A list so as to better reflect our society in all walks. There are people who have been candidates before, Councillors, Doctors, business leaders, charity campaigners. View quote
Adam Rickitt
That's why charity work is very selfish at the same time, because it makes you feel good. View quote
Maria Menounos
Today, our actions must be motivated only by our intense desire to achieve a just and lasting peace. The compassion and charity of the American people should be reflected in this legislation, though sadly, they are silenced. View quote
Nick Rahall
Jessica Simpson is the youth ambassador for Operation Smile, and an episode of The Apprentice featured a team managing a charity concert she put on. Donald Trump came on stage and pledged a donation. View quote
Roma Downey
In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do. View quote
John Quincy Adams
If things are ever to move upward, some one must take the first step, and assume the risk of it. No one who is not willing to try charity, to try non-resistance as the saint is always willing, can tell whether these methods will or will not succeed. View quote
William James
We must frankly confess, then, using our empirical common sense and ordinary practical prejudices, that in the world that actually is, the virtues of sympathy, charity, and non-resistance may be, and often have been, manifested in excess. ... You will agree to this in general, for in spite of the Gospel, in spite of Quakerism, in spite of Tolstoi, you believe in fighting fire with fire, in shooting down usurpers, locking up thieves, and freezing out vagabonds and swindlers. (William James)
We are obligated to be more scrupulous in fulfilling the commandment of charity than any other positive commandment because charity is the sign of a righteous man. View quote
Maimonides
Whilst in speaking of human things, we say that it is necessary to know them before we can love them...the saints on the contrary say in speaking of divine things that it is necessary to love them in order to know them, and that we only enter truth through charity. View quote
Blaise Pascal
The territorial aristocracy of former ages was either bound by law, or thought itself bound by usage, to come to the relief of its serving-men and to relieve their distresses. But the manufacturing aristocracy of our age first impoverishes and debases the men who serve it and then abandons them to be supported by the charity of the public. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community. View quote
Paul Bloom
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it. View quote
John D. Rockefeller
I believe in goodness Mercy and charity I believe in a universal spirit I believe in casting bread Upon the waters. View quote
Leonard Nimoy
No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity. View quote
Edmund Burke
It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity. View quote
Ben Kingsley
I was forced, through seeing the error of their foundation, to abandon all belief in every religion which had been taught to man. But my religious feelings were immediately replaced by the spirit of universal charity - not for a sect, or a party, or for a country or a colour - but for the human race, and with a real and ardent desire to do good. (Robert Owen)
If any student comes to me and says he wants to be useful to mankind and go into research to alleviate human suffering, I advise him to go into charity instead. Research wants real egotists who seek their own pleasure and satisfaction, but find it in solving the puzzles of nature. View quote
Albert Szent-Györgyi
True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense. View quote
Emanuel Swedenborg
Charity means love towards the neighbor and compassion, for anyone who loves his neighbor as himself also has as much compassion for him in his suffering as he does for himself in his own. View quote
Emanuel Swedenborg
Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands. View quote
Joseph Addison