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| Om du inte har någon välgörenhet i ditt hjärta, har du den värsta sortens hjärtproblem. | Bob Hope (1903-2003) |
| Varje god gärning är välgörenhet. En mans äkta rikedom är det goda han gör in denna värld för sina vänner. | Molière (1622-1673) |
| Vår välgörenhet börjar i hemmet. Och oftast slutar den där den började. | Horace Smith (1913-1986) |
| Ytlig välgörenhet är som att tända rökelse vid samhällets smutsiga kloakutlopp. | Ellen Key (1849-1926) |
| Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but unlike charity, it should end there. | Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987) |
| True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense | Emanuel Swedenborg |
| All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love. | Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941) |
| A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. | Jack London (1876-1916) |
| Charity in the theater begins and ends with those who have a play opening within a week of one's own. | Moss Hart (1904-1971) |
| Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want. | Myrtle Reed |
| Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all | Richard Baxter |
| The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation | William Hutton |
| In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. . | Alexander the Great (356 f.Kr.-323 f.Kr.) |
| Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it. | George Sand (1804-1876) |
| What you give for the cause of charity in health is gold; what you give in sickness is silver; what you give after death is lead | Jewish Proverb |
| Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it. | Sr. John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937) |
| In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do | John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) |
| Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue. | Lawrence G. Lovasik (1913-) |
| Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect. | Oren Arnold |
| Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows. | Molière (1622-1673) |
| He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own. | Konfucius (555 f.Kr.-479 f.Kr.) |
| True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense | Emanuel Swedenborg |
| And now abideth faith, hope and charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity (I Corinthians). | Bible |
| Charity begins at home, but should not end there | Proverb |
| Peace, like charity, begins at home | Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) |
| The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) |
| The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| Charity sees the need, not the cause | German Proverb |
| Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. (I Corinthians 13:1-3) | Bible |
| Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence. | Saint Augustine (354-430) |
| Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. | Albert Camus (1913-1960) |
| Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it. | Sr. John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937) |
| While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." | James Madison (1751-1836) |
| The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace. | St. Thomas Aquinas |
| Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. | St. Francis of Assisi |
| A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. | Jack London (1876-1916) |
| With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work we are in | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944) |
| Boards of public charity were invented by the devil to prevent real individual charity | Austin O'Malley |
| And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness | Bible |
| Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable. | Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) |
| Charity is a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there. | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| He that defers his charity until he is dead is, if a man weighs it rightly, rather liberal of another man's goods than his own | Francis Bacon, Sr. (1561-1626) |
| Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature | George Orwell (1903-1950) |
| Charity gives itself rich; covetousness hoards itself poor | German Proverb |
| Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. | Henry Ford (1863-1947) |
| Nothing is more patent, indeed, than the fact that charity merely converts the unfit - who, in the course of nature, would soon die out and so cease to encumber the earth - into parasites - who live on indefinitely, a nuisance and a burden to their b | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others. | Homer J. Simpson (1955-) |
| Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins | Horace Mann (1796-1859) |
| I have come to the conclusion that charity is only charity when you give goods, services or money without personal gain, benefit or recognition of any kind. True charity is anonymous. It begins and ends within your self. | Jim Pinto |
| If not us, who? If not now, when? | John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) |
| I have now lost my barrier between me and death; God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it, as I confidently believe her to have been! If the way to Heaven be through piety, truth, justice and charity, she is there | Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) |
| What do you call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, magnanimity, forgiveness? Different results of the one master impulse: the necessity of securing one's self-approval | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Christian life consists of faith and charity | Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) |
| Development aid takes money from the poor in rich countries and gives it to the rich in poor countries. | Mohammed Saleh |
| Your smiling in your brother's face is charity; and your exhorting man to virtuous deeds is charity; and your prohibiting the forbidden is charity; and your showing men the road, in the land in which they lose it, is charity; and your assisting the b | Muhammad |
| He that feeds upon charity has a cold dinner and no supper | Proverb |
| Charity not cheating | Proverb |
| Charity and pride have different aims, yet both feed the poor | Proverb |
| If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when? | Rabbi Hillel |
| The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Character and personal force are the only investments worth anything | Walt Whitman (1819-1892) |
| Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself | Walt Whitman (1819-1892) |
| Acts of loving-kindness now supersede sacrifices as the preferred way of attaining God's forgiveness. | Yochanan ben Zakkai |