1.
Seek (beneficial) knowledge,
because seeking it for the sake of Allaah is a worship.
And knowing it makes you more God-fearing;
and searching for it is jihad,
teaching it to those who do not know is charity,
reviewing and learning it more is like tasbeeh.
Through knowledge Allaah will be known and worshiped.
Ibn Taymiyyah
2.
Whatever troubles may be before you, accept them bravely, remembering Whom you are trying to follow. Do not be afraid. Love one another, bear with one another, and let charity guide you all your life. God will reward you as only He can.
Mary MacKillop
3.
Charity is the soul of faith, makes it alive; without love, faith dies.
Anthony of Padua
Compassion is the essence of belief, brings it to life; without affection, trust perishes.
4.
Everything that is in the heavens, on earth, and under the earth is penetrated with connectedness, penetrated with relatedness.
Hildegard of Bingen
All components of the universe, from the highest to the lowest, are intricately interconnected.
5.
I see and hear daily that you of the Clergy preach one against another, teach one contrary to another, inveigh one against another without charity or discretion. Some be too stiff in their old mumpsimus, others be too busy and curious in their new sumpsimus. Thus all men almost be in variety and discord.
Henry VIII of England
6.
The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.
Saadi
'The most beloved of the Almighty are those who possess the wealth of the affluent, but maintain the humility of the destitute, and those without possessions that carry themselves with grandeur akin to opulence.'
7.
No work of charity can be more productive of good to society than the careful instruction of women.
Catherine McAuley
The careful education of women can be the most beneficial contribution to society.
8.
Charity is a cold grey loveless thing. If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.
Clement Attlee
Generosity is a frigid unemotional matter. If an affluent individual desires to assist the impoverished, he should be eager to fulfill his fiscal obligations, not distribute funds capriciously.
9.
To heal the breach between the rich and the poor, it is necessary to distinguish between justice and charity.
Pope Pius X
10.
There is no act of charity that is not accompanied by justice or that permits us to do more than we reasonably can.
Vincent de Paul
11.
A community in which this universal charity reigns, is capable of surmounting all difficulties.
Catherine McAuley
13.
Our charity is to be cordial...something that renews, invigorates and warms. Such should be the effect of our love for each other.
Catherine McAuley
14.
Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.
Walt Whitman
15.
Charity should be abolished; and be replaced by justice.
Norman Bethune
16.
Solidarity is not an act of charity, but mutual aid between forces fighting for the same objective.
Samora Machel
17.
We should never insult others on account of their faults, for it is our duty to show charity and respect to everyone.
John Calvin
18.
The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
Charles Lamb
19.
How marvellous it would be if, at the end of the day, each of us could say: today I have performed an act of charity towards others!
Pope Francis
20.
For, if we have not charity, we are not Christians: charity is the great duty of Christians.
George Whitefield
21.
INGRATE, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object of charity.
Ambrose Bierce
22.
Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.
James Madison
23.
On the last day, when the general examination takes place, there will be no question at all on the text of Aristotle, the aphorisms of Hippocrates, or the paragraphs of Justinian. Charity will be the whole syllabus.
Robert Bellarmine
24.
Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
Maimonides
25.
Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance. So Ambrosius says, and it is also to be found in the Decretum Gratiani: The bread which you withhold belongs to the hungry: the clothing you shut away, to the naked: and the money you bury in the earth is the redemption and freedom of the penniless.
Thomas Aquinas
26.
True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.
Emanuel Swedenborg
27.
We have the right as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.
Davy Crockett
28.
Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
29.
Wherever the fear of God rules in the heart, it will appear both in works of charity and piety, and neither will excuse us from the other.
Matthew Henry
30.
Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
31.
Peace and union are the most necessary of all things for men who live in common, and nothing serves so well to establish and maintain these as the forbearing charity whereby we put up with one another's defects.
Robert Bellarmine
33.
While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
34.
We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not attempt to prove that Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.
Davy Crockett
35.
What the poor need is not charity, but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers.
Clarence Jordan
36.
Charity is having patience with someone who has let us down. It is resisting the impulse to become offended easily. It is accepting weaknesses and shortcomings. It is accepting people as they truly are. It is looking beyond physical appearances to attributes that will not dim through time. It is resisting the impulse to categorize others.
Thomas S. Monson
37.
If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.
Alexei Sayle
38.
. . . [I]n the kingdom of charity, one prefers to suffer some inconvenience rather than inconvenience the neighbor.
Vincent de Paul
39.
Divided as we may be by religion, we are united by charity.
Rashi
40.
How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good.
Mark Twain
41.
The Lord loveth a cheerful giver. He also accepteth from a grouch.
Catherine Hall
42.
It fills me with joy to realize that I can lay down my life daily for God, that I can sacrifice it willingly for Him. I may not be a martyr for the faith, but I can be a martyr of charity.
Rose Philippine Duchesne
43.
A charity dollar has only one life; a Social Business dollar can be invested over and over again.
Muhammad Yunus
44.
I don't do social events, I don't do award ceremonies, I don't do charity dinners. I live my life off-radar.
Marco Pierre White
45.
An apostolic missionary must have both heart and tongue ablaze with charity.
Anthony Mary Claret
46.
Even a smile can be charity.
Muhammad
47.
Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.
Bill Moyers
48.
We are responsible for the world in which we find ourselves, if only because we are the only sentient force which can change it.
James A. Baldwin
49.
If Stephen Harper took off his shirt in public, I'm not sure he'd raise any money for charity.
Margaret Trudeau
50.
A Good Samaritan is not simply one whose heart is touched in an immediate act of care and charity, but one who provides a system of sustained care.
James A. Forbes