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.
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").
We may not substitute charity for godliness; but there is room for the Divine love in the heart which has been touched by the human.
— William Morley Punshon, p. 47. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Earth has not a spectacle more glorious or more fair to show than this love tolerating intolerance; charity covering, as with a vail, even the sin of the lack of charity.
— Frederick William Robertson, 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
Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship.
thomas aquinas— Thomas Aquinas, uaestiones disputatae: De caritate (ca. 1270)
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'.
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).
There is no charitable purpose which is not a benevolent purpose.
— Lord Langdale, M.R., Kendall v. Granger (1842), 5 Beav. 302; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 26.
We are obligated to be more scrupulous in fulfilling the commandment of charity than any other positive commandment because charity is the sign of a righteous man.
— Maimonides, as quoted in A Maimonides Reader (1972) by Isadore Twersky, p. 135
In a just world, there would be no possibility of 'charity'.
bertrand russell— Bertrand Russell, On charity (1932).
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.
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 have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
— I Corinthians, XIII. 2. (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations)
Charity suffereth long and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.
— I Corinthians, XIII. 4. (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
Meek and lowly, pure and holy, Chief among the "blessed three."
— Charles Jefferys, Charity. (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations)
