Quotes About Charity

Instead of engaging in uncharitable controversies, in which everybody insisted that he alone was right, a humble acknowledgement of our lack of insight should draw us together.

Augustine was not a linguist. He knew no Hebrew and could not have encountered Jewish midrash, but he had come to the same conclusion as Hillel and Akiba. Any interpretation of scripture that spread hatred and dissension was illegitimate; all exegesis must be guided by the principle of charity.

Dear Charity, Is anything worth fighting for? Doubtful Dear Doubtful, Yes, many things: children, friendship, the future. Sour cream fudge rum cake with pecans. fight with your mind, your heart, your words. Violence is always a last resort. Charity

What about email? You got email on your phone?' Ricky 'Yeah, but I don't really wanna answer them 'cos they're like 70 pence a time or something. I got an email from Oxfam, saying if I wanted to buy some goat again. That's cost me a quid.' Karl

He makes a beggar first that first relieves him; Not us'rers make more beggars where they live Than charitable men that use to give.

Man is born for deeds of kindness.

Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando.]

Some men mistake generosity for charity: these flatter themselves that they are giving gratuitously, whilst they are merely rewarding secret services offered their vanity.

I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.

All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.

As charity covers a multitude of sins before God, so does politeness before men.

I hope that this man can be won over by your bearing charitably with him, advising him prudently, and praying for him. This is what I do for your family in general and for you in particular.

To commiserate is sometimes more than to give, for money is external to a man's self, but he who bestows compassion communicates his own soul.

When you give a man a dole you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him his destiny.

The most acceptable service of God is doing good to man.

It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities.

A rich man can afford to be generous to many.

The cheapest of all things is kindness, its exercise requiring the least possible trouble and self-sacrifice. Win hearts, said Burleigh to Queen Elizabeth, and you have all men's hearts and purses.

Service to man is service to god

Man should be judged by the deeds done to help his fellow man.

Have Love. Not love alone for one, but man as man they brother call; and scatter like the circling sun thy charities on all.

I hold that Christian grace abounds Where charity is seen; that when We climb to heaven, 'tis on the rounds Of love to men.

...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.

All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.