Quotes
Quotes about Charity
Charity begins at home. [Lat., Proximus sum egomet mihi.]
The living need charity more than the dead.
All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty: for beauty is simply Reality seen with the eyes of love.
Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.
And now abideth faith, hope and charity, these three, but the greatest of these is charity. [Corinthians]
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.
The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable.
Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.
Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
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.
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.
The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable.
They take the paper and they read the headlines, So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of breadlines, And they philanthropically cure them all By getting up a costume charity ball.
Charity sees the need, not the cause.
Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.
Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.
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.
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?.
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.
Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
And now abideth faith, hope and charity, these three, but the greatest of these is charity. [Corinthians].
