Charity Quotes

Charity begins at home and generally dies from lack of out – of – door exercise; sympathy travels abroad extensively.

Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

Real charity doesn’t care if it’s tax deductible or not.

In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.

A charitable man is like an apple tree – he gives his fruit and is silent; the philanthropist is like the hen.

Let your heart feel for the affliction, and distress of every one; let your hand give in proportion to your purse; remembering always the estimation of the Widows mite. But, that it is not every one who asketh, that deserveth charity; all however are worthy of the enquiry, or the deserving may suffer.

Charity covers a multitude of sins.

There are the haves and the have-nots – also the give-nots.

One summer day he heard it mentioned casually that there was a sick man in a field some distance away. Jack (C.S. Lewis) said “poor devil” and continued to write; then he suddenly jumped up in distress and said, “I have sinned; I have shown myself lacking in all charity.” Out he went, found the […]

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.