When there is charity and wisdom there is neither fear nor ignorance.
Charity Quotes
Charity isn’t a good substitute for justice.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
He who gives his heart will not deny his money.
The manner of giving shows the character of the giver more than the gift itself. There is a princely manner of giving and accepting.
That’s one trouble with our charities, we are always saving somebody away off, when the fellow next to us ain’t eating. Something wrong with the missionaries. They will save anybody if he is far enough away and don’t speak our language.
There are the haves and the have-nots – also the give-nots.
One summer day he heard it mentioned casually that there was a sick man in a field some distance away. Jack (C.S. Lewis) said “poor devil” and continued to write; then he suddenly jumped up in distress and said, “I have sinned; I have shown myself lacking in all charity.” Out he went, found the […]
Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.
True generosity does not consist in obeying every impulse of humanity… so as to render us incapable of future ones.
