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.

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.