Quote: The living need charity more than the dead.
Author: George Arnold
Quote: Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and undeserving?
Author: Francis Atterbury 1663-1732, British Anglican Clergyman, Controversialist
Quote: Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
Author: St. Augustine 354-430, Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo, Theologian
Quote: In charity there is no excess.
Author: Francis Bacon 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
Quote: Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven.
Author: Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer
Quote: And now abideth faith, hope and charity, these three, but the greatest of these is charity. [Corinthians]
Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up. [New Test.]
Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: God loveth a cheerful giver. [2 Corinthians 9:7]
Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, they have their reward. But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth. [Mathew 6:2-3]
Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.
Author: Jacques BTNigne Bossuet 1627-1704, Catholic Churchman, Pulpit Orator
Quote: A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
Author: Bertolt Brecht 1898-1956, German Dramatist, Poet
Quote: Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
Author: Emily Bronte 1818-1848, British Novelist, Poet
Quote: Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.
Author: Phillips Brooks 1835-1893, American Minister, Poet
Quote: Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.
Author: Sir Thomas Browne 1605-1682, British Author, Physician,, Philosopher
Quote: Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.
Author: Sir Thomas Browne 1605-1682, British Author, Physician,, Philosopher
Quote: The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?
Author: Jean De La BruyFre 1645-1696, French Classical Writer
Quote: The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable.
Author: J. S. Buckminster
Quote: I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
Author: Miguel De Cervantes 1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet
Quote: Charity is the scope of all God's commands.
Author: St. John Chrysosatom 345-407, Patriarch of Constantinople
Quote: It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
Author: Winston Churchill 1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister
Quote: Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer
Quote: Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness, when bequeathed by those who. when alive, would not have contributed.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer
Quote: Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
Author: Charles Dickens 1812-1870, British Novelist
Quote: Sometimes when I'm swimming, I think that maybe someday I'll put my red Speedo up for auction. Or maybe I'll donate it to the Smithsonian. They can stuff it with two plums and a gherkin and put it on display.
Author: David Duchovny 1960-, American Actor
Quote: The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.
Author: Lawrence Durrell 1912-1990, British Author
Quote: Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
Author: Henry Fielding 1707-1754, British Novelist, Dramatist
Quote: Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Author: Erich Fromm 1900-1980, American Psychologist
Quote: Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
Author: Thomas Fuller 1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author
Quote: The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others, lives unblest.
Author: Henry Home
Quote: If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
Author: Bob Hope 1903-, American Comedian, Actor
Quote: Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.
Author: Elbert Hubbard 1859-1915, American Author, Publisher
Quote: As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
Author: Victor Hugo 1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.
Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author
Quote: 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.
Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author
Quote: Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
Author: Joseph Joubert 1754-1824, French Moralist
Quote: Prayer carries us half way to God, fasting brings us to the door of His palace, and alms-giving procures us admission.
Author: The Koran c. 500 AD, Islamic Religious Bible
Quote: With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work ;we are in.
Author: Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA
Quote: 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.
Author: Jack London 1876-1916, American Novelist
Quote: Teach us to give and not count the cost.
Author: St. Ignatius Loyola 1495-1556, Spanish Theologian, Founder of the Jesuits
Quote: To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Author: Horace Mann 1796-1859, American Educator
Quote: As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.
Author: John Stuart Mill 1806-1873, British Philosopher, Economist
Quote: We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. I do not agree with the big way of doing things.
Author: Mother Teresa 1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary
Quote: They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball.
Author: Ogden Nash 1902-1971, American Humorous Poet
Quote: The organized charity, scrimped and iced, in the name of a cautious, statistical Christ.
Author: John Boyle O'Reilly 1844-1890, Irish Author
Quote: To give requires good sense.
Author: Ovid BC 43-18 AD, Roman Poet
Quote: The charitable give out the door and God puts it back through the window.
Author: Proverb
Quote: Charity sees the need, not the cause.
Author: German Proverb Sayings of German Origin
Quote: Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Author: John D. Rockefeller 1839-1937, American Industrialist, Philanthropist, Founder Exxon
Quote: The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work.
Author: John Ruskin 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist
Quote: The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.
Author: Saadi
Quote: Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.
Author: Antoine De Saint-Exupery 1900-1944, French Aviator, Writer
Quote: Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.
Author: Jonathan Swift 1667-1745, Anglo-Irish Satirist
Quote: If you give money, spend yourself with it.
Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
Quote: Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
Author: Simone Weil 1910-1943, French Philosopher, Mystic
Quote: Charity creates a multitude of sins.
Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit