Charity Quotes - Page 19

• Service changes people. It refines, purifies, gives a finer perspective, and brings out the best in each one of us. It gets us looking outward instead of inward. Righteous service is the expression of true charity, such as the Savior showed.

  Derek A. Cuthbert

  Expression, People, Giving

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• I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities.

  Abbe Pierre

  Share, Made, Estates

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• To create a new business that makes money, and more significantly, employs others, and more significantly, gives a product to a customer that improves their life, is our greatest challenge, our greatest opportunity, and the greatest gift, far greater than any charity that we can give our fellow person.

  Paul Zane Pilzer

  Opportunity, Giving, Challenges

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• Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues.

  Hugh Kingsmill

  May, Sin, Virtue

  Hugh Kingsmill (1949). “The progress of a biographer”

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• What the poor need is not charity, but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers.

  Clarence Jordan

  Needs, Coworker, Poor

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• Earning of livelihood by following some profession is better than living on charity.

  Umar

  Earning, Following, Living On

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• Charity is the root of all good works.

  Saint Augustine

  Roots, Good Work

  Saint Augustine (1992). “Sermons 148-183 on the New Testament”, p.310, New City Press

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• Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.

  Larry Elder

  Principles, Roles, Welfare

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• The thing about all these charities is that who sees where the money goes? I don't and you don't. For all I know, the president of Make a Wish just used all the money to buy himself a mansion and a yacht. That's why I keep all of my money for myself, at least then I know I'm doing good for at least one person for sure.

  Zach Braff

  Wish, President, Doing Good

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• The greatest charity you can contribute to is yourself. Instead of spending a dollar to help feed hungry children, why not spend that dollar on hair gel so you can get the perfect cowlick?

  Zach Braff

  Children, Hair, Perfect

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• I am still amazed at the amount of Christian charity [Wellesley] stuck us all with, a kind of glazed politeness in the face of boredom and stupidity. Tolerance, in the worst sense of the word. How marvelous it would have been to go to a women's college that encouraged impoliteness, that rewarded aggression, that encouraged argument.

  Nora Ephron

  Christian, College, Boredom

  Nora Ephron (2012). “Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media”, p.45, Vintage

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• For Christians, the first priority may be theological self-understanding. For Jews it is, and after Auschwitz must be, simple safety for their children. In pursuit of this goal, Jews seek - are morally required to seek - independence of other people's charity. They therefore seek safety - are morally required to seek it - through the existence of a Jewish state. Except among the theologically or humanly perverse, Zionism - the commitment to the safety and genuine sovereignty of the State of Israel - is not negotiable.

  Emil Fackenheim

  Christian, Children, Commitment

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• Build what you want to see in the world.

  Jack Dorsey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• The spiritual life is a stern choice. It is not a consoling retreat from the difficulties of existence; but an invitation to enter fully into that difficult existence, and there apply the Charity of God and bear the cost.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Spiritual, Choices, Cost

  Evelyn Underhill (2015). “The School of Charity: Meditations on the Christian Creed”, p.16, Aeterna Press

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• As disciples of Christ, we need to feel genuine charity for one another. As we do, new light will come into our own lives. This charity is essential in missionary work, but we must never allow ourselves to treat our neighbors only as potential converts. We have had the sad experience of seeing members of the Church who attempted to convert their neighbors and friends and, when they did not respond, withdrew their friendship and neighborliness. We must not be so anxious to share the gospel that we become insensitive to the feelings of others.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Light, Feelings, Church

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• Be the change you want to see.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• We must give alms. Charity wins souls and draws them to virtue.

  Angela Merici

  Winning, Giving, Soul

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• Peace and union are the most necessary of all things for men who live in common, and nothing serves so well to establish and maintain these as the forbearing charity whereby we put up with one another's defects.

  Robert Bellarmine

  Men, Saint, Unions

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• Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Mother, Roots, Saint

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• The measure of charity may be taken from the want of desires. As desires diminish in the soul, charity increases in it; and when it no longer feels any desire, then it possesses perfect charity.

  Saint Augustine

  Taken, Perfect, Soul

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• O my soul, what are you doing? Are you not aware that God sees you always? You can never hide yourself from His sight. O Father, have pity on us because we are blind and in darkness. Drive out the darkness and give me light. Melt the ice of my self-love and kindle in me the fire of Your charity.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Father, Fire, Light

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• Joy, with peace, is the sister of charity. Serve the Lord with laughter.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Laughter, Joy, Saint

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• You cannot pray at home, like you can at church, where there is a great multitude; where exclamations are cried out to God as from one great heart, and where there is something more: the unions of minds, the accord of souls, the bond of charity, the prayers of priests.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Christian, Prayer, Home

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• Charity is indeed, a great thing, and a gift of God, and when it is rightly ordered likens us unto God himself, as far as that is possible; for it is charity which makes the man.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Christian, Men, He Man

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• Loving one another with the charity of Christ, let the love you have in your hearts be shown outwardly in your deeds so that compelled by such an example, the sisters may also grow in the love of God and charity for one another.

  Clare of Assisi

  Christian, Love You, Heart

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