#charity

And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust. ↗

— Simon Raven

#charity #disgraced #each #failed #fine

It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#charity #charity work #continue #difficult #disasters

There comes a time in the development of every ego when it must love its neighbors or become a twisted and stunted personality. ↗

— Joshua Loth Liebman

#love #change

Once you go on welfare it changes you. Even if you get off welfare, you never escape the stigma that you were a charity case. You're scarred for life. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#life #state-benefits #welfare #change

I am astonished at the pleasure one experiences in doing good; and I should be tempted to believe that what we call virtuous people have not so much merit as they lead us to suppose. ↗

— Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

#good-works #vicomte-de-valmont #virtue #experience

Charity erodes the cultural prerequisites for a vigorous democracy. ↗

— Janet Poppendieck

#democracy #inequality #food

What would it hurt for me to give that homeless guy a couple bucks? Who the hell cares if he spends it on beer? Maybe beer is a step up for him from the harder stuff that knocked him onto the streets in the first place. Maybe, just maybe, he’s actually going to spend it on food (homeless people do eat, right?). Maybe, he really is a desperate human being who is trying to change his situation. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#giving #homeless #homelessness #change

The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#love #poverty #freedom

The healing power of charity, bestowed by our Father and made possible by the Atonement of Jesus Christ, can make it virtually impossible for us even to feel emotions common to the natural man. ↗

— Sheri L. Dew

#charity #inspirational #lds #inspirational

Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is simply a polite word for slavery. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#slavery