Charity Quotes

Charity Quote of the day

The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.

Charity is the cement which binds Communities to God and persons to one another . . .

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

Everything that is in the heavens, on earth, and under the earth is penetrated with connectedness, penetrated with relatedness.

Charity is the soul of faith, makes it alive; without love, faith dies.

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

There are eight levels of charity.... The highest is when you strengthen a man's hand until he need no longer be dependent upon others.

War and courage have done more great things than charity. Not your sympathy, but your bravery has saved the unfotunate.

No work of charity can be more productive of good to society than the careful instruction of women.

There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.

Charity is a cold grey loveless thing. If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.

To heal the breach between the rich and the poor, it is necessary to distinguish between justice and charity.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Don't judge without having heard both sides. Even persons who think themselves virtuous very easily forget this elementary rule of prudence.

There is no act of charity that is not accompanied by justice or that permits us to do more than we reasonably can.

In essentials, unity; in differences, liberty; in all things, charity.

A community in which this universal charity reigns, is capable of surmounting all difficulties.

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.

The source of justice is not vengeance but charity.

Our charity is to be cordial...something that renews, invigorates and warms. Such should be the effect of our love for each other.

Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, when I give I give myself.

Charity should be abolished; and be replaced by justice.

Solidarity is not an act of charity, but mutual aid between forces fighting for the same objective.

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life . . .

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.

Truly it is a blessed thing to love on earth as we hope to love in Heaven, and to begin that friendship here which is to endure for ever there.

We should never insult others on account of their faults, for it is our duty to show charity and respect to everyone.

The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

How marvellous it would be if, at the end of the day, each of us could say: today I have performed an act of charity towards others!

For, if we have not charity, we are not Christians: charity is the great duty of Christians.

Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.

Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.

Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

INGRATE, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object of charity.

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.

We have the right as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man's entire relation to God and to his neighbor.

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and undeserving?

A poor but humble man who gives nothing to charity is preferrable to a rich but haughty man who does.

To consider yourself an environmentalist and still eat meat is like saying you're a philanthropist who doesn't give to charity.