Quotes About Charity

Generosity is the vanity of giving.

He gives twice who gives promptly.

Giving kids clothes and food is one thing, but it's much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people.

To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark of a Christian-to help them is.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Be charitable and indulgent to every one but thyself.

I was hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: I was naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

It is more blessed to give than to receive.

Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance.

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

Real charity and a real ability never to condemn-the one real virtue-is so often the result of a waking experience that gives a glimpse of what lies beneath things.

We must give alms. Charity wins souls and draws them to virtue.

The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation.

I have as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.

There is no real religious experience that does not express itself in charity.

Charity begins at home, and usually stays there.

Charity looks at the need, not at the cause.

He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.

He that has no charity deserves no mercy.

Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who have need of help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.

Give, if thou can, an alms; if not, a sweet and gentle word.

Behold! I do not give lectures on a little charity. When I give, I give myself.