charity Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

82 charity Quotes
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“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?”
Rabbi Hillel Quotes
“The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
“Christmas gift suggestions:To your enemy, forgiveness.To an opponent, tolerance.To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.”
Oren Arnold Quotes
“He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.”
Confucius Quotes
“Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.”
St. Francis of Assisi Quotes
“Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.”
Moliere Quotes
“Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.”
Saint Augustine Quotes
“True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense”
Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes
“Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.”
John D. Rockefeller Quotes
“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 Quotes
“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 Quotes
Source: in a letter to A. Bronson
“Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.”
Joseph Addison Quotes
Source: in the "Guardian", no. 166
“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 Quotes
Source: Essay--On Goodness
“Charity and treating begin at home.”
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Quotes
Source: Wit without Money (sc. 2)
“Let them learn first to show pity at home.”
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Quotes
Source: Wit without Money (sc. 2)
“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 Quotes
Source: I Corinthians (ch. XIII, v. 1)
“And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.”
Bible Quotes
Source: I Corinthians (ch. XIII, v. 13)
“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 Quotes
Source: I Corinthians (ch. XIII, v. 2)
“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 Quotes
Source: I Corinthians (ch. XIII, v. 3)
“Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaulteth not itself, is not puffed up.”
Bible Quotes
Source: I Corinthians (ch. XIII, v. 4)
“And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves. for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.”
Bible Quotes
Source: I Peter (ch. IV, v. 8)
“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 Quotes
Source: I Timothy (ch. V, v. 4)
“The voice of the world ["Charity begins at home"].”
Sir Thomas Browne Quotes
Source: Religio Medici
“No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.”
Edmund Burke Quotes
Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France
“True Charity, a plant divinely nurs'd.”
William Cowper Quotes
Source: Charity (l. 573)