Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy’s tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

I’m generous. I give good tips. It’s just – the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don’t want anything. I’m not a consumer. I don’t crave objects.

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

In assisting his ‚neighbour‘ every day to the best of his ability, and keeping truth, honesty, and kindness perpetually before him, the Boy Scout, with as little formality as possible, is pleasing God.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

Learning to live for others isn’t something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

People have me pinned as a shark or a predator in some way, and in no way am I that. I wouldn’t want to hurt anyone. I want to defend people. I want to help people.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.

Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.

You may be rich, but there is one thing you can’t afford – that is, if you are a good sort – you can’t afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‚If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?‘ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‚If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?‘

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

You pity the fool because you don’t want to beat up a fool! You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you know, you won’t have to beat him up. So that’s why I say fools, you gotta give another chance because they don’t know no better. That’s why I pity them!

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

I’m always attracted to people who interest me. They’ve got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They’re interested in people.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

I just don’t like killing creatures.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his ‚basic rights.‘

We are not cisterns made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.

The American people have not become heartless.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

Although the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, ‚I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior’s power to bless others.‘

Ethiopia didn’t just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, ‚Would you take my son with you?‘ He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.

Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

It’s very inexpensive to give a compliment.

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

Rose Adams is a wonderful Christian woman who cared for my mother, Morrow Coffey Graham, in her last years of life.

Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

I was never focused on me, me, me all the time. I was always focused on somebody else.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.