Charity Quotes
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The measure of charity may be taken from the want of desires. As desires diminish in the soul, charity increases in it; and when it no longer feels any desire, then it possesses perfect charity.
Saint Augustine -
If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.
Alexei Sayle
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Charity is another passion of mine and I think it's important to give back. I'm a lucky guy, I've had a great life, I have a great family. I'm very blessed that way, so I believe in giving back a lot.
Nacho Figueras -
Charity could chatter dorm-room Marxist theory with the best of them, but a single look from cool, silver-haired Lady Beddington was enough to make her tremble from head to toe.
Elizabeth Jane Howard -
'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.
William Shakespeare -
I think part of the problem with charity is that it tends to make us view people as helpless victims. I think in the future, we'll look back on charity in the same way that we look back on colonialism today: as a very paternalistic system that doesn't fully recognise the full spectrum of humanity.
Leila Janah -
Charity, like the sun, brightens every object on which it shines.
Confucius -
Arbitration is justice blended with charity.
Nachman of Breslov
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Not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes; tolerance and opportunity, human dignity and justice.
Barack Obama -
Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.
Andrew Carnegie -
He that defers his charity 'till he is dead, is (if a man weighs it rightly) rather liberal of another man's, than of his own.
Francis Bacon -
No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.
Edmund Burke -
To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many.
Stanley Hauerwas -
The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.
Jesse Ventura
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Do good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.
William Penn -
I am in charity, my children, with all the servants of God.
Caedmon -
We may not substitute charity for godliness; but there is room for the Divine love in the heart which has been touched by the human.
William Morley Punshon -
That's why charity work is very selfish at the same time, because it makes you feel good.
Maria Menounos -
Twitter is just like posting old-fashioned press releases, and it can be very effective in promoting your business interests and charity work.
Cindy Crawford -
I want to make the most out of the word 'fame.' I want to do good things with my fame, or whatever it is. I want to help and do charity work.
Ali Lohan
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Doing charity work is always cool. It's always a good thing.
Lee DeWyze -
In a word, the Holy Scripture is the highest and best of books, abounding in comfort under all afflictions and trials. It teaches us to see, to feel, to grasp, and to comprehend faith, hope, and charity, far otherwise than mere human reason can; and while evil oppresses us, it teaches how these virtues throw light upon the darkness, and how, after this poor, miserable existence of ours on earth, there is another and an eternal life.
Martin Luther -
I really enjoy doing charity, for a good cause, it's like the least I can do, I really enjoy that stuff. I enjoy giving back.
Alex O'Loughlin -
When 'Joy Luck Club' came out, I kind of became a role model for the Asian acting community. I started to talk at colleges and emcee charity things. I'm much more connected to my sense of being Asian now.
Lauren Tom