Charity Quotes

Christian life consists of faith and charity

I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.

Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.

If any Muslim plants any plant and a human being or an animal eats of it, he will be rewarded as if he had given that much in charity.

The best kind of charity is to help those who are willing to help themselves.

As far as Martin [Luther] himself is concerned, O good God, what have we overlooked or not done? What fatherly charity have we omitted that we might call him back from such errors?

Forgiveness is the best charity. (It is easy to give the poor money and goods when one has plenty, but to forgive is hard; but it is the best thing if one can do it.)

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.

Faith, hope, and love remain. But the greatest of these is love.

The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.

None of us are perfect, for which reason we should heed the voice of charity when it whispers in our ears, "Do not magnify the imperfections of others.

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others.

Charity is ... a universal remedy against discord, and an holy cement for mankind.

We are obligated to be more scrupulous in fulfilling the commandment of charity than any other positive commandment because charity is the sign of a righteous man.

To me, charity often is just about giving, because you’re supposed to, or because it’s what you’ve always done — or it’s about giving until it hurts.

Our zeal is always guided by charity. Everything is done with strength and gentleness.

The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

The spirit of the world encloses four kinds of spirits, diametrically opposed to charity--the spirit of resentment, spirit of aversion, spirit of jealousy and the spirit of indifference.

The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.

Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.

Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.

To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.

I think there is an immense shortage of Christian charity among so-called Christians.

[L]ove is inventive to infinity.

There are two noble things in life: one to do charity and other to look after your body.

The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune.

Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.

Lincoln said, 'With malice toward none, with charity to all.' Nowadays they say, 'Think the way I do or I'll bomb the daylights outta you.'

Consider God's charity. Where else have we ever seen someone who has been offended voluntarily paying out his life for those who have offended him?

A large part of altruism, even when it is perfectly honest, is grounded upon the fact that it is uncomfortable to have unhappy people about one.

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.

Faith is knowing and thinking those truths: charity is willing and doing them.

Charity ... is kind, it is not easily provok'd, it thinks no evil, it believes all things, hopes all things.

Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.

You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence.

If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican.

So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give.

The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead. Ask about the scale of their dreams.

The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.

Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.

It is not the magnitude of our actions, but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.

Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

Saviour! teach me, day by day, Love's sweet lesson to obey; Sweeter lesson cannot be, Loving Him who first loved me. Charity is the very livery of Christ.