Quotes about Charity
But I also happen to be someone who believes in tithing--the giving of a tenth .
- Ronald Reagan
God doesn't look at how much we do, but with how much love we do it.
- Mother Teresa
We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist.
- Pope Gregory The Great
God does not need our good works, but our neighbor does.
- Martin Luther
Thus the Apostle commands us to work with our own hands, that we may have to give to those that need. He might have said, that we may support ourselves; but he tells us to give to those that need.
- Martin Luther
The true God has never yet smiled upon a person for his charity or virtues, but only for the sake of Christ's merits.
- Martin Luther
Every city should support its own poor, and if it was too small, the people in the surrounding villages should also be urged to contribute
- Martin Luther
115. Learn, then, what a hypocrite is; namely, one who lays claim to the worship of God and to charity, and yet, at the same time, destroys the worship of God and slaughters his brother.
- Martin Luther
Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love.
- Mother Teresa
I never add up. I only subtract from the total dying... . . . It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa
In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love
- Mother Teresa