Compassionate Giving Quotes

Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship.

Charity is reaching into one's own pockets to assist his fellow man in need. Reaching into someone else's pocket to assist one's fellow man hardly qualifies as charity. When done privately, we deem it theft, and the individual risks jail time.

Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give Pleasure to our Lovers or bestow Charity upon the Needy, we do so, not to gratify the object of our Benevolence, but only ourselves. For the Truth is that we are kind for the same reason as we are cruel, in order that we may enhance the sense of our own Power.

Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money.

I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be willing to give until it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true love in me, and I bring injustice, not peace, to those around me.

For every effort we make to assist someone beyond our own borders, we take something away from our own

Charity is without fear: having given all that it has, it has nothing left to lose.

Charity is a flower not naturally of earthly growth, and it needs manuring with a promise of profit.

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.

Charity never faileth.

To be rich is to give a smile with no expectation of return.

There are people in need of help. Charity is one of the nobler human motivations. The act of reaching into one's own pockets to help a fellow man in need is praiseworthy and laudable. Reaching into someone else's pocket is despicable and worthy of condemnation.

Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is simply a polite word for slavery.

Do you think that the man-loving God has given you much so that you could use it only for your own benefit? No, but so that your abundance might supply the lack of others.

If giving back a penny causes one child to be injured or abused, the answer is: Keep your penny.

When paying charity, one should smile and be humble, allowing the hand of the indigent to be above the giver's hand.

Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.

We certainly can try to grow in love, and it is good practice, this giving what we've got, whether it is a cup of coffee or money to pay the grocery bill.

It is with charity as with money--the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.

Give, but give until it hurts.

In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.

The place of charity, like that of God, is everywhere.

Charity itself fulfills the law. And who can sever love from charity?

Generosity is more charitable than wealth.