Charity Quotes

Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

May your charity increase as much as your wealth

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

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

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.

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







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