Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.
Charity itself fulfills the law. And who can sever love from charity?
Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.
We live in a society which salves its conscience more by helping the interestingly unfortunate than the dull deserving.
My favorite charity is the Womens Refugee Commission and the Nomi network.
I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.
Practicing charity is the best way to evangelize.
Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.
There is one kind of charity common enough among us. . . It is that patchwork philanthropy which clothes the ragged, feeds the poor, and heals the sick. I am far from decrying the noble spirit which seeks to help a poor or suffering fellow being. . . [However] what advances a nation or a community is not so much to prop up its weakest and most helpless members, but to lift up the best and the most gifted, so as to make them of the greatest service to the country.
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.
It is the best thing to blame ourselves when people cannot get on well with us. Boundless charity necessarily includes all or it ceases to be boundless. We must be strict with ourselves and lenient with our neighbors. For we know not their difficulties and what they overcome.
Some charities treat donors like cash machines. Until now there hasn't been any effective way for them to provide a more personal or interactive giving experience.
How can we know the true meaning of charity if we don't even know how to help those closest to us?
A community in which this universal charity reigns, is capable of surmounting all difficulties.
Actually I do support a charity, DefendersofWildLife. org. They help protect endangered species.
Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.
Hope is a leg of a 3-legged stool with Faith and Charity.
Charity, like the sun, brightens every object on which it shines.
As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
I've always respected those who tried to change the world for the better, rather than just complain about it.