Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity. – C.S. Lewis
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. – Helen Keller
Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself. – Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French moralist.
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others. – Plato
When it comes to charity; many people stop at nothing……. – Anon
Wealth is not to feed our egos, but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him. – Albert Schweitzer
Charity creates a multitude of sins. – Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish poet and dramatist.
There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of the people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea of the service of humanity. – Oprah Winfrey
He who gives only what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice. – John Templeton
Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something. – Henry David Thoreau
A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. – Seneca
I wondered why somebody didn’t do something. Then I realized, I am somebody.
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems – Mahatma Gandhi
Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul, like you.
To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. – Henry David Thoreau
Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-caluculated less or more. – William Wordsworth
If you haven’t any charity in your heart, You have the worst kind of heart trouble. – Bob Hope
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld. – Saint Augustine (354-430) Theologian.
Pray for the dead. And fight like hell for the living! – Mother Jones
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