Quotes about Charity

You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you

You cannot have a perfect day without helping others with no thought of getting something in return.

You can't live a perfect day unless you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.

At times one hesitates to reprove or admonish evil-doers, either because one seeks a more favorable moment or fears his rebuke might make them worse, and further, discourage weak brethren from seeking to lead a good and holy life, or turn them aside from the faith. In such circumstances forbearance is not prompted by selfish considerations but by well advised charity.

Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.

When Christ said: "I was hungry and you fed me," he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness.

In essentials, unity; in differences, liberty; in all things, charity.