Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

If you have donated, these children may never know your name, but they will never forget your kindness.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'

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

Benevolence has come somewhat into fashion of late.

Charity is from person to person; and it loses half, far more than half, its moral value when the giver is not brought into personal relation with those to whom he gives.

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

My mother was kind and forgiving and would take in all the waifs and strays in our neighbourhood; we always compared her to Mother Teresa. She taught me a lot.

If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.

Be generous and you can be the best person who ever lived.

The UK public have repeatedly shown enormous generosity to those in need.

When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in.

Obviously, people in Texas have big hearts.

I think it's wonderful that people in pickup trucks are buying two flats of dog food and a copy of 'Bastard.' I want my view of the world to be right up there next to gallon boxes of Tide.

I think Americans have big hearts.

I admire people like Warren Buffett that are donating so much money to charity.

I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line.

We, all of us, could do a much better job of evoking what someone has called the universal principle of human altruism: the urge in us all to help others who are in danger.

A person may rightfully be happy if in this life he could do a great favor for widows and orphans, could assist support than, and facilitate fate of people.

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

I love helping out good people who are doing good things.

The generosity of the American people is legendary. So is their spirit.

No time is better spent than that spent in the service of your fellow man.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.