Charity Quotes

You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.

In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.

When I ask people to give, I can't be on television if they don't; I can't help people, if I don't - I mean, it takes money.

Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong

Treasure is stored in the ruined places.Do not break the hearts of the poorand heartbroken people

Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.

Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance. So Ambrosius says, and it is also to be found in the Decretum Gratiani: The bread which you withhold belongs to the hungry: the clothing you shut away, to the naked: and the money you bury in the earth is the redemption and freedom of the penniless.

Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves there?

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene

Imagine, just for the sake of discussion, that you had a few hours a week and a few dollars a month to donate to a cause - and you wanted to spend that time and money where it would have the greatest impact in saving and improving lives. Where would you spend it?

Recollections of the past and visions of the present come to bear me company; the meanest man to whom I have ever given alms appears, to add his mite of peace and comfort to my stock; and whenever the fire within me shall grow cold, to light my path upon this earth no more, I pray that it may be at such an hour as this, and when I love the world as well as I do now.

It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities.

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice 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.

You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on other and by them, you need at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season.

A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging.

What good being object of charity? Give away, ne'er turn to ask in return, Should there be the wealth treasured in thy heart.

The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern.

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distresses of every one, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse; remembering always the estimation of the widow's mite, but, that it is not every one who asketh that deserveth charity; all, however, are worthy of the inquiry, or the deserving may suffer.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.