Quotes about Charity
Journey quietly on your pathway to forever with charity & a smile. When you depart it will be said by all that your legacy was a better world than the one you found.
— Og Mandino
But the meaning is to walk in the ways of the Lord. As He clothes the naked so do thou also clothe the naked; as He visited the sick, so do thou also visit the sick; as he comforted mourners, so do Thou also comfort mourners" (Sotah 14a).
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
— Abraham Lincoln
The covetous are poor givers.
— Aesop
To-day if ye shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts" (Heb. 4:7). That is evangelical preaching. Is this ruthless speed? Nothing could be more ruthless than to make men think there is still plenty of time to mend their ways. To tell men that the cause is urgent, and that the kingdom of God is at hand is the most charitable and merciful act we can perform, the most joyous news we can bring.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
At the end of our life, we shall all be judged by charity.
— John of the Cross
Live simply so others may simply live.
— Mother Teresa
The measure of your life will not be in what you accumulate, but in what you give away.
— Wayne Dyer
We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Christian life consists of faith and charity
— Martin Luther
… The most worthy calling in life is that in which man can serve best his fellow man. … The noblest aim in life is to strive to live to make other lives better and happier.
— David O. McKay
Consider God's charity. Where else have we ever seen someone who has been offended voluntarily paying out his life for those who have offended him?
— Catherine of Siena