Quotes on Charity

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many.

Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these, they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.

A man who always speaks the truth wholeheartedly is greater than those who do penance and deeds of charity.

Charity never lacks what is her own, all that she needs for her own security. Not alone does she have it, she abounds with it. She wants this abundance for herself that she may share it with all; and she reserves enough for herself so that she disappoints nobody. For charity is perfect only when full.

I think the legacy we leave is our family. I don't think it's money. I don't think it's - I'm not saying that charity isn't a great thing. I just think that it's my family. Even now I look and I think, God, I'm lucky if I lost it all.

The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.

Just as doubt, despair, and desensitization go together, so do faith, hope, and charity. The latter, however, must be carefully and constantly nurtured, whereas despair, like dandelions, needs so little encouragement to sprout and spread. Despair comes so naturally to the natural man!

You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

In what is necessary, unity; in what is not necessary, liberty and in all things charity.

Through prayer, charity and humility before God, people receive a heart which is firm and merciful, attentive and generous, a heart which is not closed, indifferent or prey to the globalization of indifference.

We should not feel pride in our charity, austerity, valour, scriptural knowledge, modestyandmorality for the world is full of the rarest gems.

...because with us what is highest must be at the service of others.

But you too, help one another: help one another always. One another. In this way, by helping one another, we will do some good.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined.

Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor.