Quotes about Charity

“To give requires good sense.”

“In charity there is no excess.”

“Charity creates a multitude of sins.”

“Charity sees the need, not the cause.”

“Teach us to give and not count the cost.”

“If you give money, spend yourself with it.”

“The living need charity more than the dead.”

“Charity is the scope of all God's commands.”

“As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.”

“Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.”

“Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.”

“Charity begins at home, but should not end there.”

“Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.”

“Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.”

“Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.”

“Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.”

“Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven.”

“Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.”

“To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.”

“Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.”

“It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.”

“The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?”

“The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable.”

“He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.”

“Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.”

“Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.”

“The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others, lives unblest.”

“If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.”

“The organized charity, scrimped and iced, in the name of a cautious, statistical Christ.”

“Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.”