Charity Quotes

Christian life consists of faith and charity.

Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all crimes.

The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others, lives unblest.

Maimonides’ Eight Grades of Charity: 1) To give reluctantly; 2) To give cheerfully but not adequately; 3) To give cheerfully and adequately, but only after being asked; 4) To give cheerfully, adequately, and of your own free will, but to put it in the recipient’s hand in such a way as to make him feel […]

Some are unwisely liberal, and more delight to give presents than to pay debts.

Alas for the rarity of Christian charity under the sun!

All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.

Our charity begins at home, And mostly ends where it begins.

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

Elvis did not die with a fortune; he spent nearly all he made. The stories are legion: Elvis standing beside two daydreaming newlyweds in a Cadillac showroom. “Which one do you like?” he asks. They point and he says, “Get in, it’s yours.” Or the young Elvis, a skinny kid with ridiculous sideburns, brushed off […]