Quotes about Charity
May we do good everywhere as we have opportunity, and results will not be wanting!
- Charles Spurgeon
Do not withhold good . . . when it is in your power to do it.
- Rachel Hauck
He is great who confers the most benefits.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving.
- Randy Alcorn
The world does not have time to be with the poor, to learn with the poor, to listen to the poor. To listen to the poor is an exercise of great discipline, but such listening surely is what is required if charity is not to become a hatred of the poor for being poor.
- Stanley Hauerwas
When you give a man a dole you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him his destiny.
- Zig Ziglar
The love of our neighbor hath its bounds in each man's love of himself.
- St. Augustine
In exchange for our humility and willingness to accept the charity of God, we are given a kingdom. And a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.
- Donald Miller
Good religious men, with the love of men in their hearts, and the means to pay their toll in their pockets.
- Henry David Thoreau
Having, First, gained all you can, and, Secondly saved all you can, Then give all you can.
- John Wesley
Many can give money to those in need, but to personally serve the needy readily, out of love, and in a fraternal spirit, requires a truly great soul.
- St. John Chrysostom
Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance.
- St. Thomas Aquinas