Quotes on Charity And Giving

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

I am but a small pencil in the hand of a writing God

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.

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

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.

You only need a heart full of grace