Charity Quotes - page 3

Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands. (Joseph Addison)
Kiss is not a charity. Never, ever mix commerce and charity. View quote
Gene Simmons
There's always hope... even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity. View quote
Orson Scott Card
He is truly great that is great in charity. He is truly great that is little in himself, and maketh no account of any height of honor. And he is truly learned that doeth the will of God, and forsaketh his own will. View quote
Thomas à Kempis
When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why. View quote
Dinah Craik
Charity keepeth us in Faith and Hope, and Hope leadeth us in Charity. And in the end all shall be Charity. View quote
Julian of Norwich
Charity is an unending self-discipline which always looks and leads towards the eternal affection. Therefore, its triumph shall be lasting and everlasting. View quote
Julia Ward Howe
If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for all' go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail. View quote
Henry A. Wallace
Charity and treating begin at home. View quote
John Fletcher
Whether men soar to outer space or dive to the bottom of the deepest ocean they will find themselves as they are, unchanged, because they will not have forgotten themselves nor remembered to exercise the charity of forgiveness. View quote
Meher Baba
I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it. (Bob Woodward)
On the other hand, Allah directs man to the spiritual purity through the act of giving that is represented by charity that the pious pays as "Zakat" and "Sadakat" almsgiving, and other financial obligations. View quote
Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool. View quote
Henry Fielding
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. View quote
Albert Camus
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one's weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can't all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something. View quote
Arthur Conan Doyle
It is significant that it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism. View quote
Reinhold Niebuhr
He that defers his charity until he is dead is, if a man weighs it rightly, rather liberal of another man's goods than his own. View quote
Francis Bacon
We should never insult others on account of their faults, for it is our duty to show charity and respect to everyone. View quote
John Calvin
And whereas many men, by accident unevitable, become unable to maintain themselves by their labour; they ought not to be left to the Charity of private persons; but to be provided for, (as far-forth as the necessities of Nature require,) by the Lawes of the Common-wealth. For as it is Unchariablenesse in any man, to neglect the impotent; so it is in the Soveraign of a Common-wealth, to expose them to the hazard of such uncertain Charity. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
I am in charity, my children, with all the servants of God. (Cædmon)
Let us never forget that if we wish to die like the Saints we must live like them. Let us force ourselves to imitate their virtues, in particular humility and charity. View quote
Théodore Guérin
Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature. View quote
Zhuangzi
Charity is a very labour-intensive virtue. View quote
Garth Nix
The living need charity more than the dead. View quote
George Arnold