[I]f you don’t feel or look rich, you don’t necessarily feel the same sense of obligation that a traditional rich person does or should: Noblesse oblige is, after all, dependent on a classical idea of...

Frequently give up some of your property by giving it with a generous heart to the poor … It is true that God will repay us not only in the next world but even in...

She has so much junk in her trunk. Boy, I wish she’d just drop it all off at Goodwill.

In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.

Suggest your children try tithing – giving 10 percent of their allowance to a charity every month.

Sadly, it’s another case of a rich man manipulating charity for his own benefit.

The greatest gift you can give is your time. Not money, not items, not food, not pretty cards with handwritten sentiment, but time. People need your presence. The way you can help a soul the...

Business Fights Poverty Better Than Charity Does

Charity does require sacrifice, even from big spending politicians using other people’s money for charitable purposes.

The goal for most people should not be to feel better, but to get better at feeling.

Listening and showing you are there for someone is often more important than trying to find a “fix” for a problem. I wish there were more people who practice this.

Auntie An-mei had cried before she left for China, thinking she would make her brother very rich and happy by communist standards. But when she got home, she cried to me that everyone had a...

Social media is a powerful tool to raise awareness and create change. But we must take care not to rely upon it as a reflection of our charitable efforts.

Get evangelical Christian made them receptive to the possibility of redemption in the here and now.

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

I believe when you integrate charity in your craft and not just think of the fame and riches it would entitle you with, you will feel this true sense of fulfillment. Carry on your mission,...

We believe that only government has the capacity–not to mention the political and moral responsibility–to promote the general welfare. Father Kramer as quoted in Sweet Charity?

When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid recognizing the problem and finding the solution for it. Charity becomes a way to shrug off...

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.

Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a...

Never allow anyone to take advantage of you in no shape form or fashion. People get into relationships for different reasons. And, many are often looking for something in return and it mostly relates to...

Charity sees the need, not the cause.

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.

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...

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.

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.