994 Quotes About Charity

When you judge yourself for needing help, you judge those you are helping. When you attach value to giving help, you attach value to needing help.

We cannot expect to lift others unless we stand on higher ground ourselves.

The house that does not comfort the needy is worthy of naught but destruction.

The instructive admonitions, “give an account of thy stewardship,“—“occupy till I come;” are forgotten. Thus the generous and wakeful spirit of Christian Benevolence, seeking and finding every where occasions for its exercise, is exploded, and a system of decent selfishness is avowedly established in its stead; a system scarcely more to be abjured for its impiety, than to be abhorred for its cold insensibility to the opportunities of diffusing happiness.

Life is too short, and sometimes brutal, and in the end we have only each other... Nothing else matters.

The idea that private money can solve our problems is very dangerous. Ultimately that's charity. Charity is a lovely thing. I'll never turn it down. But charity is not a substitute for systematic justice and equality.

Africa was full of people in need of help and there had to be a limit. You simply could not help everybody; but you could at least help those who came into your life. That principle allowed you to deal with the suffering you saw. That was your suffering. Other people would have to deal with the suffering that they, in their turn, came across.

Sow success and hope unto others, and more success and hope becomes what you permanently reap.

He is a Christian, and believes charity begins at home. And often it remains there.