Quotes about Charity
Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these, they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.
- St. Francis Of Assisi
He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.
- John Bunyan
By the law of Christ, every man is bound to love his neighbour as himself; but every servant is a neighbour of every civil lord; therefore every civil lord must love any of his servants as himself; but by natural instinct, every lord abhors slavery; therefore, by the law of charity, he is bound not to impose slavery on any brother in Christ.
- John Wycliffe
Give generously of what you have, and if you don't have much, give little generously.
- Scot McKnight
At the judgment Jesus will not ask us about our gifts. He will ask if our cheeks have touched the cheeks of those who suffer, if our hands have held the hands of those who endure pain, and if our gifts are directed at those who most need them.
- Scot McKnight
Redemptive suffering is an essential part of our master story. This is what it means for us to bear the image and likeness of God. By the power of the Holy Spirit, our suffering refines our charity, just as our charity transforms our suffering into a living sacrifice that allows God to have his way into our lives.
- Scott Hahn
Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.
- Mark Twain
And now and then his mind reverted to his treatment by those rude Christ's Hospital Boys, and he said, When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teaching out of books; for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved and the heart. I will keep this diligently in my remembrance, that this day's lesson be not lost upon me, and my people suffer thereby; for learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.
- Mark Twain
When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books; for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved, and the heart. I will keep this diligently in my remembrance, that this day's lesson be not lost upon me, and my people suffer thereby; for learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.
- Mark Twain
Charity is fortune, avarice is poverty, peace is treasure, and happiness is wealth.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Let all that you do be done in love.
- 1 Corinthians 16:14
You cannot warm the hearts of people with God's love if they have an empty stomach and cold feet.
- William Booth