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No matter how poor one is, one can still give others riches
- Anne Frank
You can tell if people are following Jesus, because they are feeding the poor, sharing their wealth, and trying to get everyone medical insurance.
- Anne Lamott
Ask?da ekmek: there is bread on the hook. It's an ancient tradition in Turkey. When buying a loaf at the local bakery, you can choose to pay for an extra loaf and, after bagging your purchase, the owner will hang the second loaf on a hook on the wall. If a person in need comes by, he or she can ask if there's anything on the hook. If so, the bread is shared, and the hunger is relieved.
- Seth Godin
Going to a charity tea party and thinking that you've done your bit toward putting an end to social inequity in the world.
- Paulo Coelho
Good King Wenceslas looked out on the feast of Stephen, When the snow lay round about, Deep and crisp and even.
- John Mason Neale
This is the best cure for melancholy: to set about doing something which will require muscular exertion and which will benefit others.
- AW Pink
The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.
- George Eliot
Still — if I have read religious history aright — faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a sensibility to the three concords, and it is possible — thank Heaven! — to have very erroneous theories and very sublime feelings. The
- George Eliot
Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
- Mother Teresa
Some of our finest work comes through service to others.
- Gordon Hinckley
He who is dying of hunger must be fed rather than taught.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury--you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
- Samuel Johnson