#charity

Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor. ↗

— Francis Quarles

#faith #flatter #god #hast #neighbor

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it. ↗

— George Sand

#degrades #dispense #hardens #receive #those

If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#charity #city #family #fruit #hardware

You know I think I could give a little more back to charity. ↗

— Rod Stewart

#charity #could #give #i #i think

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

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#desire #others #recompense #thought #true

I have known a lot of people in my life, and I can tell you this… Some of the ones who understood love better than anyone else were those who the rest of the world had long before measured as lost or gone. Some of the people who were able to look at the dirtiest, the poorest, the gays, the straights, the drug users, those in recovery, the basest of sinners, and those who were just… plain… different. They were able to look at them all and only see strength. Beauty. Potential. Hope. And if we boil it down, isn’t that what love actually is? ↗

— Dan Pearce

#charity #christianity #happiness #hate #hatred

There are only two ways to live your life. One as if all that matters is to have someone love and accept you. The other is as though loving and accepting another person is all that matters. Often when you choose the second, you get the first. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#charity #love #reaching-out-to-others #relationships #life

Will there ever be an encyclopedia? Possibly. I would say two things about the encyclopedia: firstly, I’ve always said and I stand by it, whenever I do do a printed encyclopedia I would like all the proceeds to go to charity. Back in 1998 I never dreamt I personally I would be in the position that I could set up a large charitable foundation and personally do things for charity, and I’ve done other charity books already. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#harry-potter #j-k-rowling #pottermore #the-scottish-book #charity

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.' To this day, especially in times of 'disaster,' I remember my mother's words and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers – so many caring people in this world. ↗

— Fred Rogers

#endurance #hope #mister-rogers #charity

To sum it all up, the [Ayn] Rand belief system looks like this: 1. Facts are facts: things can be absolutely right or absolutely wrong, as determined by reason. 2. According to my reasoning, I am absolutely right. 3. Charity is immoral. 4. Pay for your own fucking schools. ↗

— Matt Taibbi

#cynicism #objectivism #philosophy #charity