Famous Quotes & Sayings

There are five prayers and five times of day for prayer; the five have five names. Let the first be truthfulness, the second honest living, and the third charity in the Name of God. Let the fourth be good will to all, and the fifth the praise of the Lord.

Will Smith

Having a corporate sponsor for their New Year's Eve party is a preliminary conversation. This is a very premature E-mail that went out. Will and Jada were just looking for some way to have an over-the-top party that benefited their charity . This is how parties get thrown every single day.

If they can't demonstrate they're using it for research purposes, or if they can't show that they're turning a profit and generating revenue for the charity, then it is highly questionable and doesn't look like something a charity should be doing.

If they knew that this money was charity money for hurricane relief, and then took it, that makes them kind of a low-life.

Charles R. Swindoll

Don't be afraid of outgiving God. It is impossible to do that.

Sathya Baba

Spend money in charity; be generous and munificent but not extravagant.

I think that's higher than nearly any other charity, even the United Way, which is thought do quite well.

It is a great way for people around the world to come together and raise money for charity

Our morgue at Big Charity is full and it is under water.

Arpad Busson

Charities must treat donors as if they were shareholders.

Bertrand Russell

In a just world, there would be no possibility of 'charity'.

Larry Thomas

I'm sitting here looking at a little gold key that the mayor of DeLand gave me in 2004. I enjoyed being there, and I thought the people were really nice, but it's a strange world when a charity stiffs you.

Leila Janah

I think part of the problem with charity is that it tends to make us view people as helpless victims. I think in the future, we'll look back on charity in the same way that we look back on colonialism today: as a very paternalistic system that doesn't fully recognise the full spectrum of humanity.

Dan Carter

We have some overhead, but most of the money we collect goes to the charity.

The faith must express itself in charity and in solidarity, which is the civil form of charity.

Well, the PTA and the football don't count ---- they're charity.

Abbe Pierre

I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities.

Alex Johnson

We are not a charity. Our money comes out of hotel/motel taxes.

Dorothy Day

Charity is only as warm as those who administer it.

Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.

Any reputable charity should welcome this sort of thing to show we are who we say we are and do what we say we do.

Sometimes you get to designate the charity; sometimes you donate them to the program and they decide which charity gets the miles.

Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

William Cowper

Did Charity prevail, the press would proveA vehicle of virtue, truth, and love.

This exceptional rating from Charity Navigator differentiates United Way of Forsyth County from its peers and proves that it's worthy of the public's trust.

It's a nice event, held in a nice place. Not only do you get to mingle will all the people who are donating to the charity, but you get to talk to the other restaurateurs.

Everyone's having a good time ? it's for charity. But the firemen are probably a little upset right now.

Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.

Charles Dickens

Vether it's worth goin' through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said ven he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o' taste.

Larry Noble

You get this image that they are taking money out of one pocket and giving it to a charity while they are taking money from lobbyist-sponsored fundraisers with the other hand.

Chanakya

A woman does not become holy by offering by charity, by observing hundreds of fasts, or by sipping sacred water, as by sipping the water used to wash her husbands feet.

Stanley Hauerwas

The world does not have time to be with the poor, to learn with the poor, to listen to the poor. To listen to the poor is an exercise of great discipline, but such listening surely is what is required if charity is not to become a hatred of the poor for being poor.

Richard Hatch

I've never taken a penny from a charity, and they know it. I've always paid my taxes, and they know it. I think it's personal at this point.