Charity proverbs

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◆ It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

- Mother Teresa99

◆ There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

- John Holmes99

◆ In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.

- Elizabeth Gilbert99

◆ 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 London99

◆ While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

- Chinua Achebe99

◆ When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.

- Maya Angelou99

◆ Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

- Martin Luther King Jr.99

◆ You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

- John Bunyan99

◆ When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.

- Hélder Camara99

◆ The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

- Mahatma Gandhi99

◆ We only have what we give.

- Isabel Allende99

◆ I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

- Abraham Lincoln99

◆ Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.

- Mother Teresa99

◆ Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

- Horace Mann99

◆ That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

- Simone de Beauvoir99