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.

There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.

The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.

If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don't have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don't have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share.

Learning to live for others isn't something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

Charity is the root of all good works.

Lord, teach me to be generous; Teach me to serve you as you deserve; To give and not to count the cost; To fight and not to heed the wounds; To toil, and not to seek for rest; To labor, and not to ask for reward - except to know that I am doing your will.

O my God, teach me to be generous, teach me to serve you as I should, to give without counting the cost, to fight without fear of being wounded, to work without seeking rest, to labour without expecting any reward, but the knowledge that I am doing your most holy will.

Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.

When you give, you reveal a spiritual truth, that the flow of life never runs dry.

In truth you owe naught to any man. You owe to all men.