Charity Quotes - Page 32

• Prescription for Life-long Happiness: Purpose enough for satisfaction; Work enough for sustenance; Sanity enough to know when to play and rest; Wealth enough for basic needs; Affection enough to like many and love a few; Self-respect enough to love yourself; Charity enough to give to others in need; Courage enough to face difficulties; Creativity enough to solve problems; Humor enough to laugh at will; Hope enough to expect an interesting tomorrow; Gratitude enough to appreciate what you have; Health enough to enjoy life for all its worth.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Love You

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• Charity unites us to God... There is nothing mean in charity, nothing arrogant. Charity knows no schism, does not rebel, does all things in concord. In charity all the elect of God have been made perfect.

  Pope Clement I

  Faith, Inspiration, Mean

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• Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Air, Philanthropy, Certain

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.203, Library of America

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• 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

  Sweet, World, Sake

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.40, Delphi Classics

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• O chime of sweet Saint Charity, Peal soon that Easter morn When Christ for all shall risen be, And in all hearts new-born! That Pentecost when utterance clear To all men shall be given, When all shall say My Brother here, And hear My Son in heaven!

  James Russell Lowell

  Sweet, Brother, Easter

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.385

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• Reform, like charity, must begin at home.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Home, Reform

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.316, Cambridge University Press

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• Did Charity prevail, the press would prove A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love.

  William Cowper

  And Love, Journalism, Virtue

  William Cowper (1872). “Table talk, Truth, Expostulation, Hope, Charity, and other poems”, p.111

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• All zeal for a reform, that gives offence To peace and charity, is mere pretence.

  William Cowper

  Giving, Reform, Zeal

  William Cowper (1872). “Table talk, Truth, Expostulation, Hope, Charity, and other poems”, p.108

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• Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.

  Alexander Pope

  Home, Fool, Vain

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1859). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope: with a life”, p.212

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• Neutrality in things good or evil is both odious and prejudicial; but in matters of an indifferent nature is safe and commendable. Herein taking of parts maketh sides, and breaketh unity. In an unjust cause of separation, he that favoreth both parts may perhaps have least love of either side, but hath most charity in himself.

  Joseph Hall

  Evil, Unity, Neutrality

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• Where there is plenty, charity is a duty, not a courtesy

  Owen Feltham

  Courtesy, Alms, Duty

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

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Country, Names, Injustice

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• Banks and donors and charities claimed to have had successes in Mozambique. I suspected they invented these successes to justify their existence.

  Paul Theroux

  Mozambique, Donors, Existence

  Paul Theroux (2004). “Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown”, p.421, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have always enjoyed do-it-yourself projects, .. Being in a position to actually help design and bring tools to market is an incredible opportunity. Being able to fund charities as a result is phenomenal.

  Tim Allen

  Opportunity, Design, Tools

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• There is a kind of laughter people laugh at public events, as if a joke were a charity auction and they want to be seen to be bidding.

  William McIlvanney

  Laughter, People, Laughing

  1985 The BigMan, ch.1.

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• I send them my warmest encouragement to persevere in the patience and charity of Christ.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Encouragement, Persevere, Christ

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• I'm disappointed . . . that the president has not done more to demand that Congress and other federal agencies make the same sacrifices millions of Americans are already making. There is no charity without sacrifice.

  Tom Coburn

  Sacrifice, Agency, President

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• Nobody on my staff is on salary. The money goes straight to the charities.

  Ferguson Jenkins

  Salary, Staff

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• To be outspoken when truth is under attack, when charity is being bruise, or when important issues of life are at stake is a good and courageous thing. To be outspoken when nothing is at stake except the feelings of someone else is a small and contemptible thing.

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Issues, Feelings, Important

  Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.140, Sophia Institute Press

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• I am delighted to be involved in the digital divide campaign to ensure that every school is made aware of what steps it can take to address the digital divide as it affects local children, and provide a range of opportunities for ICT suppliers, government agencies, charities and other organisations to make a contribution.

  Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

  Children, School, Opportunity

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• Whenever I donate a hunting trip for the Children's Leukemia Foundation, Ronald McDonald Cancer House, all these children's charities, I offer the anti-hunters an opportunity: if you donate more to the children's charity than the hunters donate we won't go hunting.

  Ted Nugent

  Children, Cancer, Opportunity

  "America Nuge". Interview with Larry Kudlow, Jim Cramer, www.nationalreview.com. May 17, 2002.

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• I want to get the point across that you may not have money to give to a charity, whether that is Ronald McDonald House or Broadway Cares or DIFFA, but you can help RAISE money or give your time and talents.

  Douglas Wilson

  Mcdonalds, Giving, House

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• A wise man should not divulge the formula of a medicine which he has well prepared; an act of charity which he has performed; domestic conflicts; private affairs with his wife; poorly prepared food he may have been offered; or slang he may have heard.

  Chanakya

  Wise, Men, Medicine

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• Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.

  Chanakya

  Ignorance, Poverty, Misery

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• But there are many, and I'm a supporter of a great deal of charities.

  Bobby Sherman

  Deals, Supporter

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