Charity Quotes

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.

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.

Everything that is in the heavens, on earth, and under the earth is penetrated with connectedness, penetrated with relatedness.

Charity is the soul of faith, makes it alive; without love, faith dies.

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.

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.

No work of charity can be more productive of good to society than the careful instruction of women.

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.

To heal the breach between the rich and the poor, it is necessary to distinguish between justice and charity.

There is no act of charity that is not accompanied by justice or that permits us to do more than we reasonably can.

A community in which this universal charity reigns, is capable of surmounting all difficulties.

The source of justice is not vengeance but charity.

Our charity is to be cordial...something that renews, invigorates and warms. Such should be the effect of our love for each other.

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.

Solidarity is not an act of charity, but mutual aid between forces fighting for the same objective.

Charity should be abolished; and be replaced by justice.

We should never insult others on account of their faults, for it is our duty to show charity and respect to everyone.

The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

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!

For, if we have not charity, we are not Christians: charity is the great duty of Christians.

Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.

INGRATE, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object of charity.

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.

Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

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.

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.

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.

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

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.

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.

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.

A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity.

While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate.

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.

What the poor need is not charity, but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers.

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.

If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.

The Lord loveth a cheerful giver. He also accepteth from a grouch.

. . . [I]n the kingdom of charity, one prefers to suffer some inconvenience rather than inconvenience the neighbor.

Divided as we may be by religion, we are united by charity.

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.

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.

A charity dollar has only one life; a Social Business dollar can be invested over and over again.

I don't do social events, I don't do award ceremonies, I don't do charity dinners. I live my life off-radar.

Even a smile can be charity.

Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.

An apostolic missionary must have both heart and tongue ablaze with charity.

We are responsible for the world in which we find ourselves, if only because we are the only sentient force which can change it.

If Stephen Harper took off his shirt in public, I'm not sure he'd raise any money for charity.

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.