Quotes about Altruism

You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. That's how prayer works.

Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.

I seldom made an errand to God for another but I got something for myself.

Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.

People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

Love is unselfishly choosing for another's highest good.

If you really love one another, you will not be able to avoid making sacrifices.

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Unless a man has pity he is not truly a man. If a man has not wept at the worlds pain he is only half a man, and there will always be pain in the world, knowing this does not mean that a man shall dispair. A good man will seek to take pain out of things. A foolish man will not even notice it, except in himself, and the poor unfortunate evil man will drive pain deeper into things and spread it about wherever he goes.

Is it not the great end of religion, and, in particular, the glory of Christianity, to extinguish the malignant passions; to curb the violence, to control the appetites, and to smooth the asperities of man; to make us compassionate and kind, and forgiving one to another; to make us good husbands, good fathers, good friends; and to render us active and useful in the discharge of the relative social and civil duties?

The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, are scattered at the feet of man, like flowers.