Quotes about Philanthropy

Wealthy people in the United States have created more charitable organizations and been more philanthropic than any other group in the world. We should celebrate their achievements rather than envy them.

Every believer will receive a reward for his works. The New Testament teaches these rewards are called "crowns." We will surely be surprised to note who receives the crowns and who doesn't. The lowliest servant may sparkle with more jewels than the philanthropist who endowed the church and whose name is engraved on the plaque in the narthex.

Then very few persons have any idea of the large number of applications for help that rich people are constantly being flooded with.

I have often heard persons condemned for not giving away money, who, to my own knowledge, were giving away thousands of dollars every year so quietly that the world knew nothing about it.

In a large degree it has been the pennies, the nickels, and the dimes which have come from the Sunday-schools, the Christian Endeavour societies, and the missionary societies, as well as from the church proper, that have helped to elevate the Negro at so rapid a rate.

So give to the poor; I'm begging you, I'm warning you, I'm commanding you, I'm ordering you.

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.

Charity is the root of all good works.

An act of love always tends towards two things; to the good that one wills, and to the person for whom one wills it.

There are many people who have worked just because they love the community in which they are in, without expecting any financial consideration.

The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.