Charity Quotes - Page 40

• I thank heaven I have often had it in my power to give help and relief, and this is still my greatest pleasure. If I could choose my sphere of action now, it would be that of the most simple and direct efforts of this kind.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Simple, Giving, Effort

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• The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in his own body. Its life, to a great extent, is a mere reflex of the lives of others. It migrates into their bodies, and identifying its existence with their existence, finds its own happiness in increasing and prolonging their pleasures, in extinguishing or solacing their pains.

  Horace Mann

  Pain, Men, Soul

  Horace Mann (1867). “Lectures and Annual Reports on Education”, p.209

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• Doing photo booths and signings, and doing all of that for charity, and having dance parties every night, is so much fun. I like to dance, and I know other people that like to dance. It's a great way to celebrate the time that we're all down there together.

  Zachary Levi

  Fun, Party, Night

  "Zachary Levi Talks Heroes Reborn, the Tangled Tv Series, the Nerd Machine, Comic-con & More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 3, 2015.

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• It's in vogue to have a cause and give money in charity. But to actually speak up and say something like, I'm pissed about this" - that doesn't seem to be very popular unless you're writing a blog or tweeting.

  Conor Oberst

  Writing, Giving, Causes

  Source: www.ew.com

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• One applauds the industry of professional philanthropy. But it has its dangers. After a while the private heart begins to harden. We fling letters into the wastebasket, are abrupt to telephoned solicitations. Charity withers in the incessant gale.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Heart, Letters, Gale

  Phyllis McGinley, Gerald Durrell (1969). “Birds, beasts, and relatives”, Viking Adult

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• Hope is the mainspring of human action; faith seals our lease of immortality; and charity and love give the passport to the soul's true and lasting happiness.

  Alfred Billings Street

  Hope, Lasting Happiness, Giving

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• No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Communication, Genius, No Communication

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• Our cares are the mothers, not only of our charities And virtues, but of our best joys and most cheering and enduring pleasures.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Mother, Cheer, Worry

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.29

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• Our possessions are wholly in our performances. He owns nothing to whom the world owes nothing.

  William Gilmore Simms

  World, Possession, Performances

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.19

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• All ills spring from some vice, either in ourselves or others; and even many of our diseases proceed from the same origin. Remove the vices; and the ills follow. You must only take care to remove all the vices. If you remove part, you may render the matter worse. By banishing vicious luxury, without curing sloth and an indifference to others, you only diminish industry in the state, and add nothing to men's charity or their generosity.

  David Hume

  Spring, Men, Luxury

  David Hume (1809). “Essays, moral, political, and literary”, p.297

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• I have learned from Jesus Christ Himself what charity is, and how we ought to practise it; for He says: "By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye love one another." Never can I, therefore, please myself in the hope that I may obtain the name of a servant of Christ if I possess not a true and unfeigned charity within me.

  Saint Basil

  Jesus, Men, Names

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• pity and charity may be at root an attempt to propitiate the dark powers that have not touched us yet.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Dark, Roots, May

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Housekeeping: A Novel”, p.178, Macmillan

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• Charity itself consists in acting justly and faithfully in whatever office, business and employment a person is engaged in.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Office, Acting, Employment

  Emanuel Swedenborg (1855). “The True Christian Religion: Containing the Universal Theology of the New Church, Foretold by the Lord in Daniel, VII, 13, 14, and in the Apocalypse, XXI. 1,2. Translated from the Latin”, p.452

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• all the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Pride, Vices, Virtue

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• What is this Charity, this clinking of money between strangers, and when did Charity cease to be a comforting and secret thing between one friend and another? Does Love make her voice heard through a committee, does Love employ an almoner to convey her message to her neighbor? ... The real Love knows her neighbor face to face, and laughs with him and weeps with him, and eats and drinks with him, so that at last, when his black day dawns, she may share with him, not what she can spare, but all that she has.

  Stella Benson

  Real, Voice, Laughing

  Stella Benson (2012). “Living Alone”, p.65, tredition

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• The gospel chargeth us with piety towards God, and justice and charity to men, and temperance and chastity in reference to ourselves.

  John Tillotson

  Men, Justice, Duty

  John Tillotson (1680). “Sermons Preach'd Upon Several Occasions: By John Tillotson, D.D. Dean of Canterbury, Preacher to the Honourable Society of Lincolns-Inn, and One of His Majesties Chaplains in Ordinary. The First Volume”, p.174

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• There is one way whereby we may secure our riches, and make sure friends to ourselves of them,--by laying them out in charity.

  John Tillotson

  May, Riches, Way

  John Tillotson (1748). “The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...”, p.358

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• It maketh God man, and man God; things temporal, eternal; mortal, immortal; it maketh an enemy a friend, a servant a son, vile things glorious, cold hearts fiery, and hard thing liquid.

  Bonaventure

  Heart, Son, Men

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• As every lord giveth a certain livery to his servants, charity is the very livery of Christ. Our Saviour, Who is the Lord above all lords, would have His servants known their badge, which is love.

  Hugh Latimer

  Christ, Lord, Certain

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• Whoever would entitle himself after death through the merits of his Redeemer, to the noblest of rewards, let him serve God throughout life in this most excellent of all duties, doing good to our brethren. Whoever is sensible of his offences, let him take this way especially of evidencing his repentance.

  Thomas Secker

  Rewards, Way, Merit

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• Let shining Charity adorn your zeal,
  The noblest impulse generous minds can feel.

  Aaron Hill

  Shining, Mind, Impulse

  Aaron Hill, James Cawthorn, Michael Bruce (1822). “The Poems of Hill, Cawthorn, and Bruce”, p.43

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• We only begin to realize the value of our possessions when we commence to do good to others with them. No earthly investment pays so large an interest as charity.

  Joseph Cook

  Pay, Realizing, Investment

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• American business, while it does not frown on helping the human race, frowns on people who start right in helping the human race without first proving that they can sell things to it.

  Margaret Halsey

  Business, Race, People

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• Charity is an eternal debt and without limit.

  Pasquier Quesnel

  Debt, Limits, Eternal

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• Think not you are charitable if the love of Jesus and His brethren be not purely the motive of your gifts. Alas! you might not give your superfluities, but "bestow all your goods to feed the poor;" you might even "give your body to be burned" for them, and yet be utterly destitute of charity, if self-seeking, self-pleasing or self-ends guide you; and guide you they must, until the love of God be by the Holy Ghost shed abroad in your heart.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Jesus, Heart, Thinking

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