Quotes related to Proverbs 19:17
Privilege and prosperity come with responsiblity.
— Carolyn Custis James
In general I esteem it a good maxim, that the best way to preserve the confidence of the people durably is to promote their true interest.
— George Washington
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
— George Eliot
A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.
— Oscar Wilde
The ultimate goal of fostering is to get kittens and cats adopted.
— Beth Ostrosky Stern
Kindness always starts with noticing the needs and hurts of others.
— Rick Warren
I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'
— Joseph Addison
Everything we do is either an act of love or a cry for help.
— Marianne Williamson
The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt.
— Ambrose of Milan
Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one.
— Abraham Lincoln
Is it not when the fall is the lowest that charity ought to be the greatest?
— Victor Hugo
there is a point, moreover, at which the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confounded in a single word, Les Miserables; whose fault is it? And then, is it not when the fall is lowest that charity ought to be greatest?
— Victor Hugo