Philanthropy, charity, giving voluntarily and freely. . . call it what you like, but it is truly a jewel of an American tradition.
The habit of being uniformly considerate towards others will bring increased happiness to you.
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
Do you know what the actual percentage of money the Clinton Foundation has raised that they donate so far to charity is? It's like 5%. Five percent of what they have collected they have donated - and of course, nobody reports that, either.
I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.
Charity is the cement that unites communities to God and individuals to each other so that he who contributes to the union of hearts in a community binds it indissolubly to God.
Charity with a smile shows the donor's character.
Whilst in speaking of human things, we say that it is necessary to know them before we love can them. . . the saints on the contrary say in speaking of divine things that it is necessary to love them in order to know them, and that we only enter truth through charity.
For charity purposes, how do I help? A lot of prospective levers and tools have come into my life.
People are always pleased to indulge their religiosity when it allows them to stand in judgment of someone else, licenses them to feel superior to someone else, tells them they are more righteous than someone else. They are less enthusiastic when religiosity demands that they be compassionate to someone else. That they show charity, service and mercy to everyone else.
Fortune reigns in gifts of the world.
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.
Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.
Charity should be blind to everything but need. Our personal feelings should not determine whose starvation is legitimate.
For notwithstanding this rest and cessation from labor which is required on the Lord's day, yet three sorts of works may and ought to be performed. . . . these are works of piety, works of necessity, and works of charity.
Don't be afraid of outgiving God. It is impossible to do that.
Cook the truth in charity until it tastes sweet.
The wonderful purity of nature at this season is a most pleasing fact. . . . In the bare fields and tinkling woods, see what virtue survives. In the coldest and bleakest places, the warmest charities still maintain a foothold.
Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.
Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.