Quotes about Charity
Helping raise money for kids - there's nothing better than that.
- Tim Tebow
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 it to them.
- Henry David Thoreau
When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.
- Mother Teresa
Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift.
- Rose Schneiderman
We realize that what we are accomplishing is a drop in the ocean. But if this drop were not in the ocean, it would be missed.
- Mother Teresa
There should be less talk. . . . What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.
- Mother Teresa
It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
- Ambrose of Milan
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.
- Mother Teresa
Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
- Mother Teresa
Peace like charity begins at home.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt