Best 1073 quotes in «charity quotes» category

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for

Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.

Beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time.

Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.

Be Charitable before wealth make thee covetous, and loose not the glory of the Mite.

...because with us what is highest must be at the service of others.

Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.

Be discriminating when dispensing charity. In the name of charity or philanthropy, we tend to do injustice to one's country.

Being kind to others is a way of being good to yourself.

Beneficence is a duty. He who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized, at length comes really to love him to whom he has done good. When, therefore, it is said, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," it is not meant, thou shalt love him first and do him good in consequence of that love, but, thou shalt do good to thy neighbor; and this thy beneficence will engender in thee that love to mankind which is the fulness and consummation of the inclination to do good.

Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.

But charity is a very complicated thing. Its important to find an area where you can really help and you can feel the results. Charity is not like feeding pigeons in the square. It is a process that requires professional management.

By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to those we give, to Jove is lent.

But there are many, and I'm a supporter of a great deal of charities.

But I want to start a family one day, and be involved in more charities, helping children.

Charity and personal force are the only investments worth anything.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

Charity cures heartaches.

Charity in the theater begins and ends with those who have a play opening within a week of one's own.

Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often; but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom honored.

Charity isn't about pity, it is about love.

Charity and devotion differ no more, the one from the other, than the flame from the fire.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

Charity is ... a universal remedy against discord, and an holy cement for mankind.

Charity is false, futile, and poisonous when offered as a substitute for justice.

Charity is great, but the moment you say it is all, you run the risk of running into materialism.

Charity is not a potency of the soul, because if it were it would be natural. Nor is it a passion, because it is not in a sensitive potency in which are all passions. Nor is it a habit, because a habit is removed with difficulty; charity, however, is easily lost through one act of mortal sin. Therefore charity is not something created in the soul.

Charity is only as warm as those who administer it.

Charity is that sweet-smelling savor of Jesus Christ, which vanishes and is extinguished from the moment that it is exposed.

Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues.

Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor.

Charity, like poetry, should be cultivated, if only for its being graceful.

Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.

Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.

Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.

Charity, till then, had been conscious only of a vague self-disgust and a frightening physical distress; now, of a sudden, there came to her the grave surprise of motherhood.

Charity with a smile shows the donor's character.

Charity work shouldn't be bragged about. It's just something you're supposed to do...I do it because I feel like that's what God wanted me to do. It's as simple as that.

Chastity without charity is a lamp without oil.

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

Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.

Children have but little charity for one another's defects

Capital formation is the greatest charity of all.

Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship.

Charity does not like arithmetic; selfishness worships it.

Charity is a very labour-intensive virtue.

Charity is indeed, a great thing, and a gift of God, and when it is rightly ordered likens us unto God himself, as far as that is possible; for it is charity which makes the man.

Charity is not a government program.

Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.

Charity is to will and do what is just and right in every transaction.