Charity's Quotes

We are all receiving Charity. There is something in each of us that cannot be
naturally loved. — C.S. Lewis

To me, charity often is just about giving, because you're supposed to, or because it's what you've always done - or it's about giving until it hurts. — Majora Carter

It's appalling how much money raised at some charity events gets wasted on paying personnel and admin staff. — Jasmine Guinness

We are oblivious to suffering. We are cheap with charity if it's not close to our home. — Bill Maher

The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity. — Jesse Ventura

Whoever infringes upon individual 'charity' infringes upon man's nature and scorns his personal dignity — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Nothing gives one a more spuriously good conscience than keeping rules, even if there has been a total absence of all real charity and faith. — C.S. Lewis

A good friend of mine works at Oxfam and has been closely involved in the charity's aid efforts in Syria. — Michelle Dockery

Charity with a smile shows the donor's character. — Nachman Of Breslov

It promotes charity, courage, contentment, and many other evils. — C.S. Lewis

There's a difference between charity and love," I said. "What we're offering is love. Love lasts forever. — Susan Beth Pfeffer

I think often times when people choose to be part of a charity; it's usually because something is very personal. — Elizabeth Berkley

The underprivileged are byproduct of society's material progress. — Pawan Mishra

I think it's important to be involved with charities that don't necessarily reflect what you're dealing with in your life. — Chelsea Handler

But we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance. — George Eliot

Being kind to others is a way of being good to yourself. — Harold S. Kushner

Love is the soul's rainbow. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Yep, that's me, making all of America uncomfortable one person at a time — Charity Parkerson

Children, we should simplify our life's needs and use the resulting savings for charity. — Mata Amritanandamayi

Reaching into someone else's pocket to assist one's fellow man hardly qualifies as charity. — Walter E. Williams

You know I ain't never prayed before 'Cause it always seemed to me That prayin's the same as beggin' Lord, I don't take no charity. — Steve Earle

Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own. — Francis Bacon

The fact that you are giving money to charity does not mean that you need
not try to find out whether that charity is a fraud or not. — C.S. Lewis

A woman's love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself. — Christian Nestell Bovee

I really enjoy doing charity, for a good cause, it's like the least I can do, I really enjoy that stuff. I enjoy giving back. — Alex O'Loughlin

I tend to do golf charity things because it's much safer and you don't get much chance of a broken arm or leg. — Dougray Scott

If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity. — Manoj Bhargava

Saviour! teach me, day by day,Love's sweet lesson to obey;Sweeter lesson cannot be,Loving Him who first loved me.Charity is the very livery of Christ. — Hugh Latimer

...if charity begins at home, empire begins in other men's homes. — Roger Casement

In today's Republican Party, there's a term for people who hate charity and love killing: 'Christian.' — Bill Maher

It's hard to make things right for everyone."

"But if everybody helped just one person, lots of people would get helped. — Linwood Barclay

A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen. — Mahatma Gandhi

You always enter God's hospital as a charity patient. You can't pay your way. — Vance Havner

Your uniqueness is your greatest strength, not how well you emulate others. — Simon S. Tam

Michael Jackson's charity efforts? Mmm. I'm sure they have nothing to do with his molestation charges. — Christian Finnegan

All we have is "One Life", so go for IT! — Shannon L. Alder

The real question isn't whether you like Robert, it's whether you like yourself when you're with Robert ... — Charity Shumway

To me, art's highest purpose is to entertain, to enlighten, to inspire, to evoke emotion and to change an audience in some way, big or small. — Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick

My father worked for a children's home called Dr. Barnardo's Homes. They're a charity. — David Bowie

O how unspeakable is this Sacrament which sets our affections ablaze with charity ... It is the fulfillment of Christ's Mystical Body. — Thomas Aquinas

Children have but little charity for each other's defects. — Mark Twain

I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy. — Jonathan Kozol

I may not be my brothers keeper, but I am my brother's brother. — Jeffrey R. Holland

A charity ball is like a dance except it's tax deductible. — P. J. O'Rourke

Tax deductible, That's what you are: Tax deductible. Just like my car, like a gift to local charity, you give my 1040 clarity — Steven Zelin

Pour God's love out of you in pitcher fulls, not thimbles. — Shannon L. Alder

It's easier to help strangers. You don't know them well enough to realize they're assholes. — Michael LaRocca

That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing. — Simone De Beauvoir

Whether by a Mack truck or by heart failure or faulty lungs, death happens. But life isn't really just about avoiding death, is it? It's about living. — Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick

Charity begins with a full stomach," the North Koreans like to say; you can't feed somebody else's kids if your own are starving. When — Barbara Demick

My favorite charity is the Women's Refugee Commission and the Nomi network. — Mamie Gummer

It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving. — Mother Teresa

Charity is all very nice,but people want to get something out of it.That's the principle of charity affairs. — Simone De Beauvoir

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own. — Abraham Lincoln

One is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner working of another person's heart. — Khaled Hosseini

Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows. — Moliere

That's why charity work is very selfish at the same time, because it makes you feel good. — Maria Menounos

Be a lamp in someone's dark world. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Doing charity work is always cool. It's always a good thing. — Lee DeWyze

Consider God's charity. Where else have we ever seen someone who has been offended voluntarily paying out his life for those who have offended him? — St. Catherine Of Siena

Charity in the theater begins and ends with those who have a play opening within a week of one's own. — Moss Hart

Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty. — Saint Augustine

I don't mean to burst anyone's bubble, but there is no scriptural or historical basis for December 25th actually being the day that Jesus was born. — Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick

Charity couldn't meet her mother's eyes. — Lesley Pearse

In the United States, the wealthy have a tradition of charity. But in Germany, the rich say, 'We pay taxes. It's enough.' — Gunter Blobel

The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I think there is an immense shortage of Christian charity among so-called Christians. — Harry S. Truman

In Japan, it's strange to openly take credit for giving to charity or even to donate publicly. — Robert Paul Weston

My charity is outrage, life my shame; And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage! — William Shakespeare

Women's Aid is a fantastic charity which has my full support. I am proud to call myself a Real Man, a man who will stand up against domestic violence. — Neil Fox

That's it. Love makes us all strong. — E.A. Bucchianeri

I'm on the advisory board of Alex's Lemonade Stand, which is a children's cancer charity. I'm so proud to be on that and help them. — Kirsten Vangsness

The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish. — Cesare Pavese

My choice was to ruin my son's life by giving him money or giving 90-plus percent to charity. Not much of a choice. — Manoj Bhargava

Charity: begins at home and remains there. When it goes out, it's because it wants to brag about itself — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Even though it's become a really cliched thing to see musicians working for charity, it's still effective and it still has to be done. — George Michael

IIFA is always involved in charity, and that's why it's a great thing that I am a part of IIFA and will continue to work along with them. — Akshay Kumar

There's always hope ... even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity. — Orson Scott Card

Aside from Ryder, none of us are particularly comfortable with the idea of modeling for the next few hours, but it's for charity, so we'll make due. — Kristen Callihan

For me, writing something in the spirit of Halloween is like Mother Teresa writing on charity and sacrifice. It's just second nature to me. — Danny Elfman

Charity ain't giving people what you wants to give, it's giving people what they need to get. — Terry Pratchett

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. — Alexander Pope

Be discriminating when dispensing charity. In the name of charity or philanthropy, we tend to do injustice to one's country. — Sathya Sai Baba

A beggar through the world am I, From place to place I wander by. Fill up my pilgrim's scrip for me, For Christ's sweet sake and charity. — James Russell Lowell

Visiting the sick' is an orgasm of superiority in the contemplation of our neighbor's helplessness — Friedrich Nietzsche

People that trust wholly to other's charity, and without industry of their own, will always be poor. — William Temple

Taking care of yourself is one of the hardest jobs
don't ever let anyone tell you otherwise. It's much easier to take care of others. — Charity Shumway

It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world. — Dan Pallotta

What's the point of doing something good if nobody's watching? — Nicole Kidman

Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity. — C.S. Lewis

I am very driven. I work really hard, whether it's acting or my charity or even poker. When I focus on something I give it my all. — Shannon Elizabeth

It's no such thing! she said. It's friendship! And if you're a man who can't tell friendship from charity, then you're to be pitied! — Bette Lee Crosby

Lets Rock Cancer's World — Benny Bellamacina

No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God's creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy. — Queen Victoria

That's the trouble with our charities; we are always saving somebody away off, when the fellow next to us ain't eating. — Will Rogers

A survey carried out across the U.S. between 2004 and 2006 showed that frequent church- or synagogue-goers are more likely to give money to charity. — Jonathan Sacks

When paying charity, one should smile and be humble, allowing the hand of the indigent to be above the giver's hand. — Hamza Yusuf

I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. — Abraham Lincoln

It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work. — Cat Stevens

A vital component of charity and grace is the ability not to draw attention to one's possession of them. Penelope pursed her lips as she pushed Eloise — Julia Quinn