Charitable Acts Quotes

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

I will spend my heaven doing good on earth.

We are all here on earth to help others.

Beneficence is a duty; and he who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized comes, at length, really to love him to whom he has done good.

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 no substitute for justice withheld.

He learned that when people are very poor they still have something to give and the impulse to give it.

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 magnanimous know very well that they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the stranger--so it be done for love, and not forostentation--do, as it were, put God under obligation to them, so perfect are the compensations of the universe.

It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding; and to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving.

Advice: It's more fun to give than to receive.

The value of a life is always measured by how much of it is given away.

The happiest people are the most giving people

We do have a moral responsibility to reach out to our neighbors in need.

I urge all Texans to answer the call to serve those in need. By volunteering their time, energy or resources to helping others, adults and youngsters follow Christ's message of love and service in thought and deed. Therefore I, George W. Bush, Governor of Texas, do hereby proclaim June 10, 2000, Jesus Day in Texas and urge the appropriate recognition whereof. In official recognition whereof, I hereby affix my signature this 17th day of March, 2000.

Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.

It will not bother me in the hour of death to reflect that I have been "had for a sucker" by any number of imposters but it would be a torment to know that one had refused even one person in need.

In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

My father has been to me a paragon of what actualizing philanthropic potential can be.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

We did our duty as human beings: helping people in need.

You never know how many people are compassionate about something, especially when it's not happening to you. You just hope somebody's out there helping.

Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.

When we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.

Anyone who has two shirts when someone has none is not a christian.