Quotes about Charity
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
Charity is the soul of faith, makes it alive; without love, faith dies.
— St. Anthony of Padua
As long as any one has the means of doing good to his neighbours, and does not do so, he shall be reckoned a stranger to the love of the Lord.
— Irenaeus of Lyons
Christianity can be summed up in the two terms faith and love...receiving from above [faith] and giving out below [love].
— Martin Luther
It is to those who have the most need of us that we ought to show our love more especially.
— Francis de Sales
The bible informs us, compels us to care for the poor, to love the outcast, to serve the needy.
— David Platt
Like the Good Samaritan, may we not be ashamed of touching the wounds of those who suffer, but try to heal them with concrete acts of love.
— Pope Francis
Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love...the smaller the thing, the greater must be our love.
— Mother Teresa