Freedom from Religion Foundation Quotes

Go forth Monks and bring happiness to the many.

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.

I love helping out good people who are doing good things.

I have been doing good deeds since I was just a small child.

I believe that everyone, regardless of who they are, should do something that is greater than themselves. Whether it's adoption, or helping people who are sick or poor, or whatever. That's what God put us on this earth to do.

It's important to think good, speak good, and do good. If we want to see positive change in the world, then we need to connect to goodness. I try in everything I do, both in business and philanthropy, to make a positive change and do that by doing good.

The faith must express itself in charity and in solidarity, which is the civil form of charity.

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

Now the only way you can serve God on earth is by serving others.

… true evangelical faith ... clothes the naked; feeds the hungry; consoles the afflicted; shelters the miserable; aids and consoles all the oppressed; returns good for evil; serves those that injure it; prays for those that persecute it.

Charity is from person to person; and it loses half, far more than half, its moral value when the giver is not brought into personal relation with those to whom he gives.

My faith is central to everything I do. My faith position is a Good Samaritan position of trying to watch out for the other person.

When I got religion, I found some work to do to benefit somebody.

Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.

I've always felt that if you've been blessed, you should try to help as many people as you can. I just think that's the right thing to do.

True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Frankly, I'm not religious, but I believe in the cause of humanity - doing good work.

There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said: 'Go and become a philanthropist.' I said, 'No, I can do that in the business world, create a different kind of business - a business based on selflessness.'

My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

Embrace every opportunity of exercising kind feelings and doing good to others, especially to the household of faith.

I love to perform at benefits and charity fundraisers.

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.