Quotes about Charity

If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.

Mankind was my business... charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.

Do you want to do something beautiful for God? There is a person who needs you. This is your chance.

Charity transcends mere virtue. Yet once this charity exists, it fulfills all virtue, as the New Law fulfills the Old and as grace fulfills nature. Charity is the heart and soul of all virtue.

In essentials, unity; in inessentials, diversity; in all things, charity.

Since (1) charity is supernatural, and comes only from the real presence of God in the soul (St. Thomas' paragraph 3), and since (2) all men, and not only Christians, are capable of charity (as has been proved in the paragraph above), it follows that (3) all men are capable of accepting the real presence of God in their souls, even if they have defective or mistaken concepts of God.

Our attempts at charity without God, our attempts at charity before faith and hope, all fail because they are based on ourselves and our own false sufficiency and our own righteousness as their foundation and cause. But the charity that comes after faith is God's own work in and through us, and is part of our own salvation.

8. Charity (agape), or willing the good of the other. Since this love comes from the will rather than the feelings, and since angels have wills, angels have this love.

According to the Bible, the antidote to materialism is generosity.

Love is not about what we feel for others— it's about what we do for others.

If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy.

If I go home today," he said evenly and clearly, "tomorrow I will open my door again to any man in need who knocks.