Quotes about charity

"A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog."

London, Jack on charity
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"Teach us to give and not count the cost."

Loyola, St. Ignatius on charity   

"To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike."

Mann, Horace on charity   

"As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another."

Mill, John Stuart on charity   

"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. I do not agree with the big way of doing things."

Mother Teresa on charity   

"They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball."

Nash, Ogden on charity   

"The organized charity, scrimped and iced, in the name of a cautious, statistical Christ."

O'Reilly, John Boyle on charity   

"To give requires good sense."

Ovid on charity   

"The charitable give out the door and God puts it back through the window."

Proverb on charity   

"Charity sees the need, not the cause."

Proverb, German on charity
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"Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it."

Rockefeller, John D. on charity   

"The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work."

Ruskin, John on charity   

"The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich."

Saadi on charity   

"Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made."

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De on charity   

"Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want."

Swift, Jonathan on charity   

"If you give money, spend yourself with it."

Thoreau, Henry David on charity   

"Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does."

Weil, Simone on charity   

"Charity creates a multitude of sins."

Wilde, Oscar on charity   

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"“The benefits of giving shall be as generous as or greater than that which is given” "

Arnie Sherr on charity