Would we hold liberty, we must have charity- charity to others, charity to ourselves, crawling up from the moist ovens of a steaming world, still carrying the passional equipment of our ferocious ancestors, emerging from black superstition amid carnage and atrocity to our perilous present.
Generosity is doing something for someone else expecting nothing in return.
There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave.
The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we'll ever get paid back appropriately.
People like givers, people want to help givers. I get stuff all the time.
But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword.
Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
Life is a gift, not to possess, but to share.
We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.
Give to another human being without the expectation of a return.
The bread which you hold back belongs to the hungry; the coat, which you guard in your locked storage-chests, belongs to the naked; the footwear mouldering in your closet belongs to those without shoes. The silver that you keep hidden in a safe place belongs to the one in need. Thus, however many are those whom you could have provided for, so many are those whom you wrong.
If positive Christianity means love of one's neighbour, i.e. the tending of the sick, the clothing of the poor, the feeding of the hungry, the giving of drink to those who are thirsty, then it is we who are the more positive Christians. For in these spheres the community of the people of National Socialist Germany has accomplished a prodigious work.
Charity is love; not all love is charity.
The Secret of living is giving
There is great joy in doing something for somebody else with no thought in receiving anything in return.
He learned that when people are very poor they still have something to give and the impulse to give it.
In making dinner for a friend, don't forget the love.
Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!
Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.
Something that was instilled in me by my parents at a very young age is that there is no happy life without a life of service.
The hands that help are better far / Than lips that pray. / Love is the ever gleaming star / That leads the way, / That shines, not on vague worlds of bliss, / But on a paradise in this.
Let us not be afraid to be humble, small, helpless to prove our love for God. The cup of water you give the sick, the way you lift a dying man, the way you feed a baby, the way you teach a dull child, the way you give medicine to a sufferer of leprosy, the joy with which you smile at your own at home - all this is God's love in the world today.
There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.
He that gives all, though but little, gives much; because God looks not to the quantity of the gift, but to the quality of the givers.
Every time I take a step in the direction of generosity, I know I am moving from fear to love.
