The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
Charity Quotes
I truly enjoy no more of the world’s good things than what I willingly distribute to the needy.
The character of a people may be ruined by charity.
Christian life consists of faith and charity.
Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all crimes.
The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others, lives unblest.
Maimonides’ Eight Grades of Charity: 1) To give reluctantly; 2) To give cheerfully but not adequately; 3) To give cheerfully and adequately, but only after being asked; 4) To give cheerfully, adequately, and of your own free will, but to put it in the recipient’s hand in such a way as to make him feel […]
Some are unwisely liberal, and more delight to give presents than to pay debts.
Alas for the rarity of Christian charity under the sun!
All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.
