top of page

"So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Charity quotes

"It seems a peculiar thing when I go to fill my own cup; it remains empty as if the liquid evaporates as soon as it touches the glass. Yet when I reach to top off the cups of others, my own spills over. This is the crazy magic of charity."

"If you want to help a hungry poor man sleeping on the bench, don't ever wake him up; put the food on the bench, put some money and leave the place without looking at your back!"

"A miserable scrooge whom lacks charity for the entire world is a menace to society. Spiritual sullenness destroys men quicker than gunfire."

"Charity (Daan) means to make another living being happy, whether it is a human being or some animals, giving happiness to them, that is what is called Charity. When you give happiness to everyone, happiness will indeed come to you in its 'reaction'. If you give happiness then you immediately receive happiness just sitting at home."

"That day, I learned that I could be a giver by simply bringing a smile to another person. The ensuing years have taught me that a kind word, a vote of support is a charitable gift. I can move over and make another place for someone. I can turn my music up if it pleases, or down if it is annoying. I may never be known as a philanthropist, but I certainly am a lover of mankind, and I will give freely of my resources."

"Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine."
Explore more quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll


"If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane."


"I regard the rights of men and women equal. In Love's fair realm, husband and wife are king and queen, sceptered and crowned alike, and seated on the self-same throne."


"Every man should stand under the blue and stars, under the infinite flag of nature, the peer of every other man."


"The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others."


"Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words."


"The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn. The less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything..."


"When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism."


"Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate."
bottom of page