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Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act III, Scene I, spoken by OpheliaIn context
Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
Fulton J. Sheen1895–1979
- God
The best philanthropy is anonymous charity.
Gene Simmonsborn 1949Interview with Radio.com (July 6, 2016)
Living a minimally acceptable ethical life involves using a substantial part of our spare resources to make the world a better place. Living a fully ethical life involves doing the most good we can.
Peter Singerborn 1946The Most Good You Can Do (2015), Preface, p. vii
- Morality
You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence.
Sydney Smith1771–1845Lady Holland’s Memoir (1855), Vol. I, ch. 9, p. 312
For kindness begets kindness evermore,
But he from whose mind fades the memory
Of benefits, noble is he no more.
Sophocles496–406 BCAjax, Line 522–524 (tr. R. C. Trevelyan, 1919)
- Character
This is man’s highest end,
To others’ service all his powers to lend.
Sophocles496–406 BCOedipus the King (c. 429 BC), spoken by OedipusIn context
It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads, and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags, and importuning every passenger for an alms.
Jonathan Swift1667–1745A Modest Proposal (1729)In context
- Children
Charity is the great channel through which God passes all his mercy upon mankind.
Jeremy Taylor1613–1667Holy Dying (1651), chapter 2, section 3.
- God
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
Mother Teresa1910–1997
Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
Mother Teresa1910–1997
It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
Mother Teresa1910–1997
The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
Mother Teresa1910–1997
I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment.
Mother Teresa1910–1997
- Christianity
I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper’s wounds, I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?
Mother Teresa1910–1997Statement of 1977, as quoted in Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (2011) by Susan Ratcliffe, p. 373
- God