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But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Sermon on the Mount
For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Gospel of Matthew (1611), Matthew 25:35–36 (KJV)In context
Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:
Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Gospel of Luke (1611), Luke 6:37–38 (KJV)In context
- Forgiveness
Go, and do thou likewise.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Gospel of Luke (1611), Luke 10:37 (KJV)In context
- Advice
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address (1961)
- Money
We must admit the vanity of our false distinctions among men and learn to find our own advancement in the search for the advancement of others.
Robert F. Kennedy1925–1968On the Mindless Menace of Violence (1968)
- Morality
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Conquering Self-centeredness (1957)
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.1929–1968Conquering Self-centeredness (1957)
I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
With malice toward none, with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan — to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address (1865)
- Forgiveness
- War & Peace
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 London1876–1916“Confession” in Complete Works of Jack London, Delphi Classics, (2013)
Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882Kavanagh: A Tale (1849), Chapter 30.
In giving, a man receives more than he gives, and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.
George MacDonald1824–1905Mary Marston, Chapter V.
Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Horace Mann1796–1859Lectures on Education (1855), Lecture 6