The minister who keeps back hell from his people in his sermons is neither a faithful nor a charitable man.
In the charitable world as in the business world, opportunities should drive budgets, not the other way around.
I mean, I think it would humanize Hillary [Clinton] incredibly to detail how she was involved in the family charitable organization.
To be a Christian is to be obligated to be charitable. This is true whether you are rich or poor, healthy or ill, old or young, male or female, oppressed or free, established or disestablished.
Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always - always - more willing to laugh at themselves.
We cannot preserve philanthropic and charitable values if we detach them completely from our fundamental personal beliefs and convictions.
Dare to contend without being contentious. Preserve the truth without hurting people. Love and be charitable.
We need to aim to get rid of food banks altogether, and replace charitable intervention with a fairer, more equal society.
The parish is the presence of the Church in any given territory, an environment for hearing God's word, for growth in Christian life, for dialogue, proclamation, charitable outreach, worship and celebration.
For our welfare reform efforts to be successful, we must empower local charitable organizations with the resources to address their local community needs.
Businesses acting as businesses, not as charitable donors, are the most powerful force for addressing the pressing issues society face(s)
Naming rights are a seductive philanthropic inducement, yet more anonymous operational support may better advance the charitable purpose.
Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.
The pilgrim is humble and devout, and human, and charitable, and ready to smile and admire; therefore, he should comprehend the whole of his way, the people in it, and the hills and the clouds, and the habits of the various cities.
I suppose I arrived at my charitable commitment largely through guilt. I recognized early on that my good fortune was not due to superior personal character or initiative so much as it was to dumb luck.
Today, we don't blink an eye when the world's wealthiest individuals donate enormous sums of money to charitable causes. In fact, we expect them to do so.
The key word of the dedicated Christian should be 'give.' Charitable contributions speak eloquently of your unselfish Christian generosity.
To have charitable support given by people voluntarily to support their fellow citizens, I think, is rather uplifting and shows what a good, compassionate country we are.
He makes a beggar first that first relieves him;
Not us'rers make more beggars where they live
Than charitable men that use to give.
If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power of vice to extinguish Christian virtues.
The difference between charity and philanthropy is the distance of the soul... To be philanthropic is to give something, to be charitable is to give one's own heart.
I have always thought of Christmas time... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.
I have long been disposed to judge men by their average. If it is reasonably high, I am charitable with faults that look pretty black.
Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions.
Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.
Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
There is always scope for football to be more charitable but a lot happens already. Personally I have always been passionate about charity.
Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does.
The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.
I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds ... I find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution.
Christmas is a glorious time of the year, simple in origin, deep in meaning, beautiful in tradition and custom, rich in memories, and charitable in spirit.
A woman who wants a charitable heart wants a pure mind.
We can benefit others through our actions by being warm and generous toward them, by being charitable, and by helping those in need.
Sweeter than the perfume of roses is a reputation for a kind, charitable, unselfish nature; a ready disposition to do to others any good turn in your power.
There's real evidence that getting involved in charitable activity (and it's probably better to give your time and effort, rather than money) makes people happier.
I have formed the Mahendra Singh Dhoni Charitable Trust which organises cricket tournaments in Jharkhand to identify promising cricketers so that we can help groom them, either in India or abroad.
A charitable man is like an apple tree-he gives his fruit and is silent; the philanthropist is like the successful hen.
The wealthy are generally impressed with an idea, that they shall never stand in need of public charitable relief; but a little less confidence would become them better.
The U.N.'s humanitarian agencies rely on charitable donations from the public as well as the generosity of governments to continue their lifesaving work in response to natural disasters, armed conflicts and other emergencies.
A politician who commends himself as 'caring' and 'sensitive' because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to do good with other peoples' money.
Typically, writers meet their subjects at a neutral location - somewhere a publicist has chosen to reveal something about the celebrity, like his taste in food or hobbies or charitable work.
As you see in a pair of bellows, there is a forced breath without life, so in those that are puffed up with the wind of ostentation, there may be charitable words without works.
When death comes, it is not enough to have been charitable; and it is not right to touch the body or lay it out for a couple of hours; for the soul should be given time to fight for itself, and to go up to judgment.
Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined.
I really don't need the public's money. I'd like to have something on the internet with charitable donation optional, where anyone can download my music for free.
Government subsidies to elite private universities take the form of tax deductions for people who make charitable contributions to them.
I didn't want my epitaph to read 'Here lies John Caudwell, billionaire.' I knew that wasn't enough. I've had a charitable instinct all my life, but working gave me no time for it.
It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.
O charitable philosopher, I beg you to help me. My mind is weak but my soul is strong. Kindle that soul, and the sacred fire shall never be extinguished.
Many people are alienated by faceless bureaucracy and what they see as an erosion of participatory democracy. Consequently, there has been a revival of interest in charitable service.
I have to thank God for bringing me through and allowing me to continue to do charitable work for other sick children suffering with sickle cell.
Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation I could most wish to win.
In the charitable world, I find myself giving to large projects that I think can make a large-scale impact.
There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat.
What I found in my research on Trump's charitable giving was that often he would promise something and then never deliver, but sort of go around with people believing he'd done this thing he's promised.
U.A.E.'s continuously growing initiatives in the field of charitable and humanitarian works became a basic component of our foreign activities.
People hear 'Africa' and they think about charitable commercials, or safari tours and animals. It's our responsibility to help change that perspective.
To wipe off the froth of falsehood from the foaming lips of inebriated virtue, when fresh from the sexless orgies of morality and reeling from the delirious riot of religion, may doubtless be a charitable office.
A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.
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