Faith, hope and charity go together. Hope is practised through the virtue of patience, which continues to do good even in the face of apparent failure, and through the virtue of humility, which accepts God’s...

There are times you find yourself standing by the wayside, watching as someone struggles to dig a well with a spoon, and you wish with all your heart you had arms and a shovel.

Through their donations and work for voluntary organizations, the charitable rich exert enormous influence in society. As philanthropists, they acquire status within and outside of their class. Although private wealth is the basis of the...

The nearer a soul is to God, the more it deserves our esteem; the closer the ties that bit it to us, the more sensible is our love for it, and the more whole-hearted should...

Compassion is a reflection of our connectedness. YOUR devotion to helping others is an expression of YOUR greatness.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.

Sometimes when I’m swimming, I think that maybe someday I’ll put my red Speedo up for auction. Or maybe I’ll donate it to the Smithsonian. They can stuff it with two plums and a gherkin...

Don’t let your next decision threaten the world’s peace.

Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need, though it be your example which leaves them far behind. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do not merely abandon...

Second place is twice as good as first place, when you’re competing to put another person first. Losers make the best lovers.

I interviewed my dad on video in his final weeks. When I asked about his work and finding meaning through helping others, he responded, “I don’t think you can be focused on, ‘Oh gee, I...

I want to be a woman who lives totally abandoned to the first commandment: to love my Lord, my God, with all my heart. I don’t want the reputation that I love God, I don’t...

We hunger after the sweet nectar of happiness without understanding that it is harvested from the flowering field of good deeds.

Listen, Monsieur Director, here’s what I think. Obviously this is wrong. There are twenty-six of you in five or six small rooms; there are three of us in space enough for sixty. That is wrong,...

Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator’s love for it.

If you can find a cause that touches your soul it will make you a better person, it will show you the power of helping others and ultimately the biggest winner is us. Giving to...

If they knew that this money was charity money for hurricane relief, and then took it, that makes them kind of a low-life.

The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.

Be willing to give, but only when you aren’t expecting anything in return.

Examine your heart often to see if it is such toward your neighbor as you would like his to be toward you were you in his place. This is the touchstone of true reason.

When I help you, I feel good, you feel good, and the videographer I hired to document my generosity, altruism, and all around awesomeness feels good. I never knew how much love I had to...

charity Purify your heart and makes you lion.

I will not hesitate.I will not hang back.I will go and offer my heart, for it is what I have to give…

When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man when he gets all he can and saves all he can, does not give all he can, I have...

There are these amazing little seeds called compassion. You should grow some.

I told people I had a tough time getting $1,000 from those corporate honchos for charity events. But when you start talking about the Olympics, you almost get a blank check.

The Sikh gave him the money. When Menon asked for his address so that he could repay the man, the Sikh said that Menon owed the debt to any stranger who came to him in...

The greatest work you will ever do is charity; the most divine work you will ever do will be changing people’s perception of God, while you’re doing charity.

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.

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,...

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...

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.