John Chrysostom Quotes

When we say, 'We are starving,' we have to remember that there are people who are literally starving. If everyone fed one person, one meal, we could make a huge difference.

We have the resources (to end hunger), we know what has to be done, and it's something that can be achieved at a rather modest cost

A little goes a long way in Somalia: $5 will feed a person there for about two weeks.

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power.

There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.

We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress. No, we are here to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and crippled than ourselves. That is our only certain good and great purpose on earth

… true evangelical faith ... clothes the naked; feeds the hungry; consoles the afflicted; shelters the miserable; aids and consoles all the oppressed; returns good for evil; serves those that injure it; prays for those that persecute it.

If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me. Help the homeless. Help the needy... people who don't have no food... Instead of some big funeral, where they come from here and there and all over. Save it.

My father would give his dinner to any hungry kids who walked by and then go in the backyard and pick weeds from the yard to eat.

As a Christian, you forgive, and you feed the hungry and clothe the naked, and you visit the sick and comfort the lonely. If I'm a true follower of my lord and saviour Jesus Christ, I got to do the things you're supposed to be doing.

We all, as individuals, can and should act compassionately and charitably. We can volunteer our time, energy, and dollars to help the underprivileged. We can feed the hungry, house the homeless. Most of us feel a moral and ethical responsibility to do so - to 'do unto others.'

Hunger never saw bad bread.

This isn't one of those rare diseases that we don't have the solution for. We know how to fix hunger.

You can drill down on where hunger comes from and figure it out from there, but there absolutely has to be a sense of urgency if you're going to play tennis because you're the team - there's no one for you to rely on but yourself.

Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, himself, his hungering neighbor and me.

It's a beautiful thing, the desire to help a fellow human who is maybe in a rough spot.

To me, there are saints every day. They stand up and help others and live for others and do things for others.

My object in life is not simply to make money for myself or to spend it on myself in dressing or running around in an automobile, but I love to use a part of what I make in trying to help others.

I always want to help people that are in need.

Every new mother wonders, 'what will I pass on to my child'? Hunger is one inheritance no mother wants to give her child, yet millions of poor women have for generations. Help the World Food Programme break this cycle. No child should inherit hunger.

When you meet the needy your heart grows bigger

When our cup runs over, we let others drink the drops that fall, but not a drop from within the rim, and call it charity; when the crumbs are swept from our table, we think it generous to let the dogs eat them; as if that were charity which permits others to have what we cannot keep.

The Secret of living is giving

Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love.