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

Anne Baxter

Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.

Lawrence G. Lovasik

The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.

Peter Marshall

In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill-will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow-men, not knowing what they do.

John Quincy Adams

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaulteth not itself, is not puffed up.

Bible

He is truly great who hath a great charity.

Thomas a Kempis

The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable.

J. S. Buckminster

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

Hosea Ballou

Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.

Henry David Thoreau

One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

Andrew Carnegie

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

Jack London

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

Albert Camus

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

Walt Whitman

No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.

Edmund Burke

Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.

Moliere

May your charity increase as much as your wealth

Proverb

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Charles Dickens

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

George Sand

Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.

Jacques Bossuet

The character of a people may be ruined by charity.

Theodor Herzl

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

Simone Weil

The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others, lives unblest.

Henry Home

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

Samuel Johnson

Charity means love towards the neighbor and compassion, for anyone who loves his neighbor as himself also has as much compassion for him in his suffering as he does for himself in his own.

Emanuel Swedenborg

A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.

Henry Fielding

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