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.

Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.

Charity is merely returning what we have stolen.

Only show compassion and empathy to those you can trust.” If we did that, we would be burying homeless people every day.

Love is about giving, about caring for the other person’s welfare. Love is treating someone, in the Kantian sense, never as a means but as an end in themselves. Love is sacrifice, love is something...

Be wary of people who go out of their way in charity. They’re usually compensating for some evil they’re trying to erase.

What would it hurt for me to give that homeless guy a couple bucks? Who the hell cares if he spends it on beer? Maybe beer is a step up for him from the harder...

A selfless service to humanity is also a selfless service to God

There’s nothing that says love like getting money as a gift, and then giving it away to the needy.

Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old books and pictures and historic monuments, there will always be the animal refugee living a precarious life on...

When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal...

Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask...

I’m starting to think this world is just a place for us to learn that we need each other more than we want to admit.

Kind words and tender affections will not save me from this lake of woe and misery, but they may be enough of a buoy to prevent my drowning.

In the things that really matter–our covenants, the commandments, and following the prophet–we need to be completely united. In the non-essentials, we have our agency to handle things as we see fit. But, in all...

He does more work for charity than any other footballer I know.

It is the apathetic person that sees the cause while the charitable person sees the need.

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.

In every human act of charity, something larger, greater, divine has come down to visit the act.

When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.

I was hungry and you gave me to eat; I was cold and you clothed me; come, possess the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.’ He who is the the King...

Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return.

The word ‘religion’ has acquired a very bad name among those who really love truth, justice, charity. It also exhales the musty odor of sanctimony and falsehood.

Do we ignore the needyto spite the greedy?Or share and defenddespite those who pretend?

message of truth” found in all of us, that binds theology—holistic virtues combined with purpose is the foundation of spiritual evolution. The diversity among us all is not divided truth, but the opportunity for unity...

In spite of its alluring name, the welfare state stands or falls by compulsion. It is compulsion imposed upon us with the state’s power to punish noncompliance. Once this is clear, it is equally clear...

Charity begins at home.

Everyone can choose to live with a golden heart, it is a privilege of loving truly.

below” you. Somebody with disabilities. Somebody who lives an alternative lifestyle. Somebody without a home.Somebody that you, until now, would always avoid, always look down on, and always be disgusted by.Reach your arm out and...

In charity there is no excess.

I did a charity walk the other day. They asked for money, and I walked.

the third world.

With the crowd out there and the motivation with charity and people being behind him, he will definitely finish. Even if he has to crawl, he is going to finish.

Cultivate a passion for truth.Pursue a life of charity.Enjoy the beauty found in every day.

The majority of people spoil their lives by an unhealthy and exaggerated altruism – are forced, indeed, so to spoil them. They find themselves surrounded by hideous poverty, by hideous ugliness, by hideous starvation. It...

Be discriminating when dispensing charity. In the name of charity or philanthropy, we tend to do injustice to one’s country.

it doesn’t take much effort to be kind. It only takes the ability to recognize where kindness is needed.

It is not the number of prayers that will give you happiness, but the number you answer for another person.

They” hate us because they feel–and “they” are not wrong–that it is within our power to do so much more, and that we practice a kind of passive-aggressive violence on the Third World. We do...

Contrary to popular opinion, we are all a vast brotherhood of human beings whose very survival hinges not on what we keep, but on what we give. And it is in the giving that we...

[The charity golf tournament raises money for the Dan Quayle Center and Museum in Huntington. As today’s participants signed in, the flag at the Orchard Ridge County Club waved at half-staff to honor the memory...

No sacrifices, no sacks of rice

Don’t expect my hand to extend out of her vagina and accept the charity of strangers.

For me, writing something in the spirit of Halloween is like Mother Teresa writing on charity and sacrifice. It’s just second nature to me.