Charity Quotes

"What do you call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, magnanimity, forgiveness? Different results of the one master impulse: the necessity of securing one's self-approval"

"Charity, dear Miss Prism, charity! None of us are perfect. I myself am peculiarly susceptible to draughts."

"When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor."

"Charity creates a multitude of sins."

"charity toward all."

"Children have but little charity for one another's defects"

"Remember the poor - it costs nothing"

"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"

"The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms"

"While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all"

"Did Charity prevail, the press would proveA vehicle of virtue, truth, and love."

"How often we recall, with regret, that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good."

"All zeal for a reform, that gives offenceTo peace and charity, is mere pretence."

"Vether it's worth goin' through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said ven he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o' taste."

"If you give money, spend yourself with it."

"The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work."

"He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything."

"You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in 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."

"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."