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.
Charity Quotes
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.
It is incumbent on the rich to help the poor. Those who give of their substance to Christ in the person of His poor will receive a most bountiful reward when He shall come to judge the world. Those who act to the contrary will pay the penalty.
From those, to whom large possessions have been transmitted by their ancestors, or whose industry has been blessed with success, God always requires the tribute of charity: he commands that what he has given be enjoyed in imitating his bounty, in dispensing happiness, and cheering poverty, in easing the pains of disease, and lightening the […]
Proportion thy charity to the strength of thy estate, lest God proportion thy estate to the weakness of thy charity. Let the lips of the poor be the trumpet of thy gift, lest in seeking applause thou lose thy reward. Nothing is more pleasing to God than an open hand and a closed mouth.
When there is charity and wisdom there is neither fear nor ignorance.
Charity isn’t a good substitute for justice.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
He who gives his heart will not deny his money.
The manner of giving shows the character of the giver more than the gift itself. There is a princely manner of giving and accepting.
