Charity Quotes
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Actually, I have my own charity that I started that helps supplement families with terminal children.
Brad Garrett
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Now then, if we were to go the lowest road and plaster my face on the bottle of oil and vinegar dressing just to line our pockets, it would sink. But to go the low road to get to the high road- shameless exploitation for charity, for the common good- now that's an idea worth the hustle, a reciprocal trade agreement.
Paul Newman
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Private charity can apply 'tough love' but government charity can't.
James Cook
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The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.
George Eliot
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Most of the money given by rich people in "charity" is made up of conscience money, "ransom," political bribery, and bids for titles.... One buys moral credit by signing a cheque, which is easier than turning a prayer wheel.
George Bernard Shaw
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I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming
Sara Paretsky
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Christian life consists of faith and charity.
Martin Luther
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Even though it's become a really cliched thing to see musicians working for charity, it's still effective and it still has to be done.
George Michael
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Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.
William Wycherley
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Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
Moliere
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When I contrast the loving Jesus, comprehending all things in his ample and tender charity, with those who profess to bear his name, marking their zeal by what they do not love, it seems to me as though men, like the witches of old, had read the Bible backward, and had taken incantations out of it for evil, rather than inspiration for good.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God's creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy.
Queen Victoria
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Our possessions are wholly in our performances. He owns nothing to whom the world owes nothing.
William Gilmore Simms
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All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.
Blaise Pascal
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Charity cures heartaches.
Nachman of Breslov
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Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-caluculated less or more.
William Wordsworth
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My charity is outrage, life my shame; And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage!
William Shakespeare
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You may give a piece of bread to a hungry person, and when the cravings of hunger return some one else must administer to his wants again; to put that person in a position to earn his own subsistence is true charity; in this way you direct his feet in the path of true independence, he is then only dependent on his own exertions and on the blessings of his God.
Daniel H. Wells
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Charity work shouldn't be bragged about. It's just something you're supposed to do...I do it because I feel like that's what God wanted me to do. It's as simple as that.
Roy Jones Jr.
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Forgiveness is the best charity. (It is easy to give the poor money and goods when one has plenty, but to forgive is hard; but it is the best thing if one can do it.)
Meher Baba
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I'm a strong man. If someone needs my help, my money, my know-how, anything I possess, I'm always ready.
Alisher Usmanov
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The most helpful piece of advice that I could give to anybody is to select a charity, or create a charity, that you really feel passionate about and if you do, don't give up.
Evelyn Lauder
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All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.
Evelyn Underhill
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Forgiveness from others is charity; from God, grace; from oneself, wisdom.
William Arthur Ward