Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.
Charity Quotes
Nothing is more patent, indeed, than the fact that charity merely converts the unfit – who, in the course of nature, would soon die out and so cease to encumber the earth – into parasites – who live on indefinitely, a nuisance and a burden to their betters.
As the purse is emptied the heart is filled.
Your smiling in your brother’s face is charity; and your exhorting man to virtuous deeds is charity; and your prohibiting the forbidden is charity; and your showing men the road, in the land in which they lose it, is charity; and your assisting the blind is charity.
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.
They take the paper and they read the headlines, so they’ve heard of unemployment and they’ve heard of bread lines, and they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball.
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.
It is incumbent on the rich to help the poor. Those who give of their substance to Christ in the person of His poor will receive a most bountiful reward when He shall come to judge the world. Those who act to the contrary will pay the penalty.
