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O believing women! Let none of you despise giving to her neighbour even if it is only a roasted sheep’s trotter.
MMuhammad571–632Sunni Hadith
The upper hand is better than the lower hand. The upper hand is the one which spends and the lower is the beggar’s.
MMuhammad571–632Riyadh-as-Saliheen by Imam Al-Nawawi, volume 4, hadith number 531
I don’t think that there’s anything exceptional or noble in being philanthropic. It’s the other attitude that confuses me.
Paul Newman1925–2008When asked “Is charity your responsibility as a celebrity?” in “Paul Newman’s Road To Glory” interview with Paul Fischer, Film Monthly (1 July 2002)
Charity keepeth us in Faith and Hope, and Hope leadeth us in Charity. And in the end all shall be Charity.
Julian of Norwich1342–1416Revelations of Divine Love, Sixteenth Revelation, Ch. 84
- Faith
- Hope
I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
Alexander Pope1688–1744Thoughts on Various Subjects (1727)
- Christianity
Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.
Colin Powell1937–2021
Assist a man in raising a burden; but do not assist him in laying it down.
Pythagoras583–491 BCSymbol 11
Men of all countries are brothers, and the different peoples should help one another according to their ability like citizens of the same state.
Maximilien Robespierre1758–1794Proposed Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, speech to the National Convention (24 April 1793)
- Politics
When you cease to make a contribution; you begin to die.
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962
These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.
Franklin D. Roosevelt1882–1945Franklin D. Roosevelt’s First Inaugural Address (1933)
What can I give Him,
Poor as I am?
If I were a shepherd
I would bring a lamb,
If I were a wise man
I would do my part,⁠—
Yet what I can I give Him,
Give my heart.
Christina Rossetti1830–1894In the Bleak Midwinter (1872)In context
- Christmas
- Love
The water which has been refused to the cry of the weary and dying is unholy, though it had been blessed by every saint in heaven.
John Ruskin1819–1900The King of the Golden River (1841), Ch. 5
Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.
Albert Schweitzer1875–1965The Spiritual Life (1947), p. 164
- Advice
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
Seneca the Younger5 BC–AD 65De Beneficiis (On Benefits): Book 2, cap. 22, line 1.
Poor naked wretches, wheresoe’er you are,
That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,
How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides,
Your loop’d and window’d raggedness, defend you
From seasons such as these? O, I have ta’en
Too little care of this! Take physic, pomp;
Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel,
That thou mayst shake the superflux to them
And show the heavens more just.
William Shakespeare1564–1616King Lear (c. 1606), Act III, Scene IV, spoken by LearIn context
- Justice