If you've opened your loving to God's love, you're helping people you don't know and have never seen.

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.

Happiness seems made to be shared.

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

Occasionally I volunteer in the kitchen of a pop-up supper club in L.A., which I really love. It's like being a line cook in a great restaurant for one night at a time.

As base a thing as money often is, yet it can be transmuted into everlasting treasure. It can be converted into food for the hungry and clothing for the poor. Any temporal possession can be turned into everlasting wealth. Whatever is given to Christ is immediately touched with immortality.

When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.

You try and help something, and later on it bites you, so it's a hard decision, but as a country, as a nation, people need our help.

One of the most beautiful compensations in life is that no person can help another without helping themselves

I shall pass this way but once; any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above" (James 1:17).