Charity Quotes
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There can be no greater gift than that of giving one’s time & energy to help others without expecting anything in return.
nelson mandela
In charity there is no excess.
Francis Bacon— Francis Bacon, Essays, 13, 'Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature'.
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in charity there is no excess, neither can angel or man come in danger by it.
Francis Bacon— Francis Bacon, Essay, On Goodness.
Our charity begins at home, and mostly ends where it begins.
horace smith— Horace Smith, Horace in London, Book II. Ode 15
Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity.
Robert Southey— Robert Southey, Soldier's Wife.
Let them learn first to show piety at home.
— I Timothy. V. 4.
Charity gently to hear, kindly to judge.
— Attributed to William Shakespeare, p. 46 (other sources include only the phrase "gently to hear, kindly to judge").
There is no dearth of charity in the world in giving, but there is comparatively little exercised in thinking and speaking.
— Sir Philip Sidney, p. 47. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others as by self-examination thoroughly to know our own.
— François Fénelon, p. 48. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Doing to harm to others may bring some temporary satisfaction, but being helpful to them is the only real source of lasting joy.
Dalai Lama
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.
Alexander the Great
Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world.
— Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici (1642), ii. 4.
Certainly it is a heaven upon earth to have a man's mind to move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
Francis Bacon— Francis Bacon, Essays, 1, 'Of Truth'.
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.
— Dinah Craik, Christian's Mistake (1865). p. 64.
Charity and treating begin at home.
— John Fletcher, Wit without Money (c. 1614; published 1639), scene 2.
Let them learn first to show pity at home.
— John Fletcher, Wit without Money (c. 1614; published 1639), scene 2. Marston—Histrio-Matrix. 3. 165
Charity keepeth us in Faith and Hope, and Hope leadeth us in Charity. And in the end all shall be Charity.
— Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love (c. 1393).
Charity itself fulfills the law. And who can sever love from charity?
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost (c. 1595-6), Act IV, scene 3, line 364.
To give to the needy alone is charity. All the rest is investment for a return.
— Thiruvalluvar Tirukkural 221.
Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
joseph addison— Joseph Addison, The Guardian, No. 166.
No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.
Edmund Burke— Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790).
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
— I Corinthians, XIII. 1. (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations)
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
— I Corinthians, XIII. 13. (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations)
True Charity, a plant divinely nurs'd.
william cowper— William Cowper, Charity, line 573.
When your own courtyard thirsts, do not pour the water abroad.
— Greek Proverb
He is truly great who hath a great charity.
— Thomas à Kempis, Imitation of Christ, Book I, Chapter III. Dibdin's translation
