Quotes about Charity
Teachers of morals who do not see the difference between the problem of charity within the limits of an accepted social system and the problem of justice between economic groups, holding uneven power within modern industrial society, have simply not faced the most obvious differences between the morals of groups and those of individuals.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.
— Richard Baxter
Every man therefore is bound to do all the good he can to others, especially for the church and commonwealth.
— Richard Baxter
Givers for God disarm the power of money.
— Kent Hughes
You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. That's how prayer works.
— Pope Francis
I love to observe Christmas in quietude, humility, benevolence, charity, letting good will towards man, eloquent silence, prayer, and praise express my conception of Truth's appearing.
— Mary Baker Eddy
Our prayers and fastings are of less avail, unless they are aided by almsgiving.
— St. Cyprian
Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.
— Mother Teresa
Prayer, humility, and charity toward all are essential in the Christian life: they are the way to holiness.
— Pope Francis
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
— Walt Whitman
The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, are scattered at the feet of man, like flowers.
— William Wordsworth