Charitable
Full of love and good will; benevolent; kind.
Liberal in judging of others; disposed to look on the best side, and to avoid harsh judgment.
Liberal in benefactions to the poor; giving freely; generous; beneficent.
Of or pertaining to charity; springing from, or intended for, charity; relating to almsgiving; eleemosynary; as, a charitable institution.
Dictated by kindness; favorable; lenient.
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Charitable Quotations
Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.
Isaac Barrow
For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
Francis Bacon
Americans also don't need to be taught how to give. We don't need to be taught how to take care of each other or how to be charitable.
Glenn Beck
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher
In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people.
Clay Aiken
Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
Joseph Joubert
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
Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic.
David Rockefeller
Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
Billy Joel
The IRS is currently considering a rule that would make it easier for tax preparers to disclose the private information contained in tax returns - including name, address, Social Security number, employer, income, and charitable donations.
Melissa Bean
Charitable Translations
charitable in Dutch is liefdadigheids-, charitatief
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