If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

Great satisfaction comes from sharing a large fraction of what you have with others

He’s a great guy. He’d give you the shirt off his back if you asked. In fact, I’m wearing his shirt now, and I’m staring at his nipples.

Dress yourself in the silks of benevolence because kindness makes you beautiful.

Certainly it is a heaven upon earth, to have a man’s mind to move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.

If I had not grown up in Nigeria- and if all I knew of Africa were of popular images- I too would think that africa was a place of beautiful landscapes, beautiful animals and incomprehensible...

That churchgoers do the lion’s share of the charitable work in our communities is simply untrue. They get credit for it because they do a better job of tying the good works they do to...

Emergency food has become very useful indeed, and to a very large assortment of people and institutions. The United States Department of Agriculture uses it to reduce the accumulation of embarrassing agricultural surpluses. Business uses...

The poor you will always have with you,’ Jesus said. A warning, Emilio wondered, or an indictment?

Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.

I dreamed my shoulders held up the sky for a thousand hawks that squawked and cawed and beat their feathered wings against the hotness of the day. I supported their flight, watching and marveling, until...

Everyone’s having a good time ? it’s for charity. But the firemen are probably a little upset right now.

Your dream is to feel good; God’s dream is for you to do good.

Very well. He’d lighten up. As a matter of fact, he felt as light as the bubbly froth that flew from the lips of the waves. Whatever else his long, unprecedented life might have been,...

I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. In other words, if our expenditure on...

Be a gift, a light, a blessing as far as the eye can see to answer a call as well as a genuine, compassionate heart can reach.

I’ve purged myself of worldly goods; half my stuff is either being sold or going to charity. I need to go shopping.

What makes you adorable is how much you’re able to contribute towards the improvement of the lives of people around you

Yesterday I donated blood. It wasn’t my blood—I found it in a discarded tampon.

There comes a time in the development of every ego when it must love its neighbors or become a twisted and stunted personality.

Children have but little charity for each other’s defects.

Wanting help, I reached out to serve. Seeking happiness, I smiled and offered comfort. Yearning for love, I showed love. And now I understand. My life was never about me, it was always about you.

God reminds us again and again that things between He and us are forever fixed. They are the rendezvous points where God declares to us concretely that the debt has been paid, the ledger put...

If you have two shirts in your closet, one belongs to you and the other to the man with no shirt.

{The final resolutions at Robert Ingersoll’s funeral, quoted here}Whereas, in the order of nature — that nature which moves with unerring certainty in obedience to fixed laws — Robert G. Ingersoll has gone to that...

Gentlemen are a dying breed.Do your part to help out by supporting them sexually.

Lets toil under the sun to build poles of love. And let our roots be planted like strong trees that strong winds can’t move.

The next time you want to withhold your help, or your love, or your support for another for whatever the reason, ask yourself a simple question: do the reasons you want to withhold it reflect...

Ought we not to love dearly the neighbor, who truly represents to us the sacred Person of our Master? And is this not one of the most powerful motives we could have for loving each...

In the future, charities will be like pets. Everybody will want one, and millions will be abandoned.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

You know, that man has a spirit, that each man and woman is unique, that we have duty to promote our unalienable rights and to protect them, that we have a duty to our families...

I don’t think anyone who genuinely embraced sincerity, charity and modesty could be intolerant or divisive.

Every sunrise is an invitation for us to arise and brighten someone’s day.

Thus, when we plead for the gift of charity, we aren’t asking for lovely feelings toward someone who bugs us or someone who has injured or wounded us. We are actually pleading for our very...

So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give.

Perhaps there is nothing greater on earth than the sacrifice of youth and beauty, often of high birth, made by the gentle sex in order to work in hospitals for the relief of human misery,...

You must be prepared to sacrifice your self-love to the cause, you must be ready to treat the cause as if it is life itself.

Some people want what they are not willing to give.

There are two things you should know about the poor: they tend to smell, and they are ungrateful.

The inconsistencies that haunt our relationships with animals also result from the quirks of human cognition. We like to think of ourselves as the rational species. But research in cognitive psychology and behavioral economics shows...

I despise charity. It gives crumbs to a few and silences the others.

True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense

Charity is the power of defending that which we know to be indefensible. Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate. It is true that there is a...

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

He knew why he and the other children received ice cream only when newspaper photographers came to visit, and why food and clothing donated for the children got furtively resold outside the orphanage gate.

A humanitarian seldom makes a good lover. For a lover’s world revolves around their lover, while a humanitarian’s world revolves around the world.

The humanitarian is a treasure hunter seeking gems of remedy and appreciation.

The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.

Your job is to get off your self righteous butt and start reaching out to the difficult people because my ministry wasn’t about a bunch of nice people getting together once a week to sing...