Quotes on Charity

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

I have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person's heart

Humility is the mother of all virtues; purity, charity and obedience. It is in being humble that our love becomes real, devoted and ardent. If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are. If you are blamed you will not be discouraged. If they call you a saint you will not put yourself on a pedestal.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.

What men call love is a very small, restricted, feeble thing compared with this ineffable orgy, this divine prostitution of the soul giving itself entire, all its poetry and all its charity, to the unexpected as it comes along, to the stranger as he passes.

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.

It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.

In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. The things I have learned and the things I have been taught seem of ridiculously little importance compared with their "large loves and heavenly charities.

Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it.

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves.

In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.

Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give Pleasure to our Lovers or bestow Charity upon the Needy, we do so, not to gratify the object of our Benevolence, but only ourselves. For the Truth is that we are kind for the same reason as we are cruel, in order that we may enhance the sense of our own Power.

The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him

Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be known through charity.

To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.

I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity.

As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

Incline us oh God! to think humbly of ourselves, to be severe only in the examination of our own conduct, to consider our fellow-creatures with kindness, and to judge of all they say and do with that charity which we would desire from them ourselves.