Charity Quotes

Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads
Let love through good deeds show.

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

Charity sees the need not the cause.

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.

The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.

Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous.

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 men, charity.

Charity begins at home.

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

In charity there is no excess.

The living need charity more than the dead.

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up.

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

The measure of your life will not be in what you accumulate, but in what you give away.

Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

If you cannot lift the load off another's back, do not walk away. Try to lighten it.

There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear.

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

A man's drive for profit should be prompted by the desire to give charity.

A poor but humble man who gives nothing to charity is preferrable to a rich but haughty man who does.

Arbitration is justice blended with charity.

Before reciting his prayers, a man should give to charity.

Even the poor should give something to charity.

When you cease to make a contribution; you begin to die.

I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.

I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment.

In giving, a man receives more than he gives, and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.

Rings and jewels are not gifts but apologies for gifts. The only true gift is a portion of yourself.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.