Quotes about Charity
Is it any wonder that there can be no peace in a world where everything possible is done to guarantee that the youth of every nation will grow up absolutely without moral and religious discipline, and without the shadow of an interior life, or of that spirituality and charity and faith which alone can safeguard the treaties and agreements made by governments?
- Thomas Merton
it any wonder that there can be no peace in a world where everything possible is done to guarantee that the youth of every nation will grow up absolutely without moral and religious discipline, and without the shadow of an interior life, or of that spirituality and charity and faith which alone can safeguard the treaties and agreements made by governments?
- Thomas Merton
being loved disinterestedly reminds us that we all need love from others, and depend upon the charity of others to carry on our own lives. And we refuse love, and reject society, in so far as it seems, in our own perverse imagination, to imply some obscure kind of humiliation.
- Thomas Merton
Above all things have charity, which is the bond of perfection and may the peace of Christ exult in your hearts in which you are called unto one Body. And be grateful.? It seems to me that all mystical theology is contained in those two lines.
- Thomas Merton
It takes heroic charity and humility to let others sustain us when we are absolutely incapable of sustaining ourselves.
- Thomas Merton
Who can be good, if not made so by loving? —St. Augustine
- Kathleen Norris
We must live in charity with all men, but familiarity with them is not desirable. It sometimes happens that someone personally unknown to us enjoys a high reputation, but that when we meet him, we are not impressed. Similarly, we sometimes imagine that our company is pleasing, when in reality we offend others by our ill behaviour.
- Thomas a Kempis
Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.
- CS Lewis
The greatest of our evils and the worst of our crimes is poverty.
- George Bernard Shaw
This is to assuage our conscience, darling," she would explain to Blanca. "But it doesn't help the poor.
- Isabel Allende
Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.
- Joseph Addison
A little help is worth a great deal of pity.
- Anonymous