"In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill-will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow-men, not knowing what they do." —John Quincy Adams on Charity
"Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands." —Joseph Addison on Charity
"The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in charity there is no excess, neither can angel or man come in danger by it." —Francis Bacon on Charity
"Charity and treating begin at home." —Francis Beaumont on Charity
"Let them learn first to show pity at home." —Francis Beaumont on Charity
"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." —Bible on Charity
"And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity." —Bible on Charity
"And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing." —Bible on Charity
"And thou I bestow all my good to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." —Bible on Charity
"Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaulteth not itself, is not puffed up." —Bible on Charity
"And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves. for charity shall cover the multitude of sins." —Bible on Charity
"But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God." —Bible on Charity
"The voice of the world ." —Sir Thomas Browne on Charity
"No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity." —Edmund Burke on Charity
"True Charity, a plant divinely nurs'd." —William Cowper on Charity
"No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode , The bosom of his Father and his God." —Thomas Gray on Charity
"When your courtyard twists, do not pour the water abroad." —Thomas Gray on Charity
"Meek and lowly, pure and holy, Chief among the "blessed three."" —Charles Jefferys on Charity
"In silence, . . . Steals on soft-handed Charity, Tempering her gifts, that seem so free, By time and place, Till not a woe the bleak world see, But finds her grace." —John Keble on Charity
"He is truly great who hath a great charity." —Thomas A Kempis on Charity
"In things essential, unity; in doubtful, liberty; in all things, charity. " —Thomas A Kempis on Charity
"All crush'd and stone-cast in behaviour, She stood as a marble would stand, Then the Saviour bent down, and the Saviour In silence wrote on in the sand." —Joaquin Miller on Charity
"Charity well directed should begin at home. " —Adrian De Montluc on Charity
"In Faith and Hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity." —Alexander Pope on Charity
"Soft peace she brings, wherever she arrives: She builds our quiet, as she forms our lives: Lays the rough paths of peevish Nature even, And opens in each heart a little Heaven." —Matthew Prior on Charity
"Charity looks at the need and not at the cause." —Proverb on Charity
"It is religion to be thus forsworn, For charity itself fulfills the law And who can never love from charity?" —William Shakespeare on Charity
"Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses." —William Shakespeare on Charity
"I believe there is no sentiment he has such faith in as that charity begins at home" And his, I presume., is of that domestic sort which never stirs abroad at all." —Richard Brinsley Sheridan on Charity
"Our charity begins at home, And mostly ends where it begins." —Horace Smith on Charity
"Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity." —Robert Southey on Charity
"Charity begins at home.
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"Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong." —Zoroaster on Charity
"The living need charity more than the dead." —George Arnold on Charity
"When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth." —Bible Matthew on Charity
"All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty: for beauty is simply Reality seen with the eyes of love." —Evelyn Underhill on Charity
"Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven." —Henry Ward Beecher on Charity
"Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich." —Eva Peron on Charity
"And now abideth faith, hope and charity, these three, but the greatest of these is charity. " —Bible on Charity
"Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there." —Phillips Brooks on Charity
"The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable." —J S Buckminster on Charity
"Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows." —Mohammed on Charity
"Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable." —Charles Caleb Colton on Charity
"In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity." —Anne Baxter on Charity
"The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others, lives unblest." —Henry Home on Charity
"Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine." —Hosea Ballou on Charity
"If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble." —Bob Hope on Charity
"Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind." —Henry David Thoreau on Charity
"A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog." —Jack London on Charity
"The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation." —Peter Marshall on Charity
"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." —Antoine De Saint Exupery on Charity
"Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want." —Jonathan Swift on Charity
"Prayer carries us half way to God, fasting brings us to the door of His palace, and alms-giving procures us admission." —The Koran on Charity
"The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable." —J S Buckminster on Charity
"They take the paper and they read the headlines, So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of breadlines, And they philanthropically cure them all By getting up a costume charity ball." —Ogden Nash on Charity
"If you give money, spend yourself with it." —Henry David Thoreau on Charity
"Charity sees the need, not the cause." —German Proverb on Charity
"Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms." —Ralph Waldo Emerson on Charity
"He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything." —Samuel Johnson on Charity
"Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much." —Erich Fromm on Charity
"What we frankly give, forever is our own." —George Granville on Charity
"It is more blessed to give than to receive." —Acts on Charity
"Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there." —Elbert Hubbard on Charity
"Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal." —I Corinthians on Charity
"One must be poor to know the luxury of giving." —George Eliot on Charity
"As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled." —Victor Hugo on Charity
"Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven." —Henry Ward Beecher on Charity
"Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity." —Jacques Bénigne Bossuet on Charity
"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work ;we are in." —Abraham Lincoln on Charity
"Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and undeserving?." —Francis Atterbury on Charity
"A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog." —Jack London on Charity
"Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home." —Emily Bronte on Charity
"And now abideth faith, hope and charity, these three, but the greatest of these is charity. ." —Bible on Charity
