Charity Quotes

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. (1 Corinthians 13:1)

After the verb to love, to help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. (1 Corinthians 13:3)

True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense.

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. (1 Corinthians 13:13)

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions. He had money as well.

Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have […]

The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.

Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.

I deem it the duty of every man to devote a certain portion of his income for charitable purposes; and that it is his further duty to see it so applied as to do the most good of which it is capable.