Charity Quotes - Page 24

• Real charity is giving from the heart without taking credit.

  Michael Jackson

  Real, Heart, Giving

  "The Michael Jackson Tapes: A Tragic Icon Reveals His Soul in Intimate". Book by Shmuley Boteach, 2009.

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• Real charity and real ability never to condemn-the one real virtue-is so often the result of a waking experience that gives a glimpse of what lies beneath things.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Real, Lying, Giving

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• How marvellous it would be if, at the end of the day, each of us could say: today I have performed an act of charity towards others!

  Pope Francis

  The End Of The Day, Would Be, Today

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• Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. [...] You only need a heart full of grace.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Heart, Helping Others, Greatness

  "The Drum Major Instinct". Sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, February 4, 1968.

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• I love to observe Christmas in quietude, humility, benevolence, charity, letting good will towards man, eloquent silence, prayer, and praise express my conception of Truth’s appearing.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Letting Go, Prayer, Humility

  Mary Baker Eddy (1957). “The Christian Science Journal”

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• Fair Trade is all about improving lives, but we don't do that through charity - there is no hand out in the Fair Trade movement. People are solving their own problems through Fair Trade.

  Paul Rice

  Hands, People, Movement

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• What, indeed, does not that word "cheerfulness" imply? It means a contented spirit, it means a pure heart, it means a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and charity; it means a generous appreciation of others, and a modest opinion of self.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Appreciation, Heart, Mean

  "Sketches and Travels in London: To which are Added Novels by Eminent Hands, and Character Sketches".

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• Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Poverty, Initiative, Poor

  Muhammad Yunus (2007). “Banker To The Poor”, p.283, Penguin Books India

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• Mankind was my business... charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.

  Charles Dickens

  Scrooge, Mercy, Forbearance

  Charles Dickens (1845). “A Christmas Carol in Prose: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas”, p.33

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• Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined.

  Mark Twain

  Age, Gone, Violence

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4158, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Paul Bloom

  Gratitude, Kindness, Good Life

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• Teach me to take all grace / And spring it into blades of act, / Grow spears and sheaves of charity, / While each new instant, (new eternity) / Flowering with clean and individual circumstance, / Speaks me the whisper of [God's] consecrating Spirit. / Then will obedience bring forth new Incarnations / Shining to God with the features of [the Lord's] Christ.

  Thomas Merton

  Spring, Shining, Grace

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• Seek (beneficial) knowledge,
  because seeking it for the sake of Allaah is a worship.
  And knowing it makes you more God-fearing;
  and searching for it is jihad,
  teaching it to those who do not know is charity,
  reviewing and learning it more is like tasbeeh.
  Through knowledge Allaah will be known and worshiped.

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Teaching, Knowing, Sake

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• Dear young people, put your talents at the service of the Gospel, with creativity and boundless charity.

  Pope Francis

  Creativity, People, Talent

  Pope Francis‏ @Pontifex, twitter.com. December 7, 2013.

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• You only need a heart full of grace

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Heart, Greatness, Helping Others

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.222, Beacon Press

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• People can change their own lives, provided they have the right kind of institutional support. They're not asking for charity, charity is no solution to poverty. Poverty is the creation of opportunities like everybody else has, not the poor people, so bring them to the poor people, so that they can change their lives.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Opportunity, People, Support

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• Dear young people, the Church depends on you! She needs your lively faith, your creative charity and the energy of your hope. Your presence renews, rejuvenates and gives new energy to the Church.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  People, Giving, Creative

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• The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others.

  Mitch Albom

  Generosity, Giving Help, Way

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.43, Broadway Books

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• True charity occurs only when there are no notions of giving, giver, or gift.

  Gautama Buddha

  Giving, Giver, Notion

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• Worthless is the charity of the man who bestows it unwillingly, because material charity is not his, but God's gift, while only the disposition of the heart belongs to the man. This is why many charities prove almost worthless, for they were bestowed unwillingly, grudgingly, without respect for the person of our neighbor. So also the hospitality of many persons proves worthless because of their hypocritical vain-glorious behavior to their guests. Let us offer our sacrifices upon the altar of love to our neighbor, with heart-felt affection: 'for God loves a cheerful giver'

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Heart, Sacrifice

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• Do not desert a friend in time of need, nor forsake him nor fail him, for friendship is the support of life. Let us then bear our burdens as the Apostle has taught (cf. Gal. 6:2): for he spoke to those whom the charity of the same one body had embraced together. If friends in prosperity help friends, why do they not also in times of adversity offer their support? Let us aid by giving counsel, let us offer our best endeavors, let us sympathize with them with all our heart.

  Ambrose

  Christian, Adversity, Heart

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• ...works of piety and charity... are necessary in this present life for as long as inequality prevails. Their workings here would not be required were it not for the superabundant numbers of the poor, the needy, and the sick... As long as this inequity rages in the world, these good works will be necessary and valuable to anyone practicing them and they shall yield the reward of an everlasting inheritance to the man of good heart and concerned will.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Heart, Men

  "Conferences".

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• Now then, if we were to go the lowest road and plaster my face on the bottle of oil and vinegar dressing just to line our pockets, it would sink. But to go the low road to get to the high road- shameless exploitation for charity, for the common good- now that's an idea worth the hustle, a reciprocal trade agreement.

  Paul Newman

  Agreement, Ideas, Oil

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• On why he has donated $600 million to selected charities. I simply decided I had enough money.

  Chuck Feeney

  Money, Had Enough, Decided

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• We must recover the whole sense of gift, of gratuitousness, of solidarity. Rampant capitalism has taught the logic of profit at all costs, of giving to get, of exploitation without looking at the person... and we see the results in the crisis we are experiencing! This Home is a place that teaches charity, a "school" of charity, which instructs me to go encounter every person, not for profit, but for love.

  Pope Francis

  Home, School, Giving

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