Quotes about Charity
You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you
- John Wooden
You cannot have a perfect day without helping others with no thought of getting something in return.
- John Wooden
You can't live a perfect day unless you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
- Francois Rabelais
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.
- St. Augustine
Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll
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.
- Mother Teresa
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.
- Cicero
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.
- Mother Teresa
In essentials, unity; in differences, liberty; in all things, charity.
- Philipp Melanchthon