#Charity Quotes

“Charity itself fulfills the law. And who can sever love from charity?”

“To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off. It is only a postponement of the real payment, a bribe paid for silence, a creditsystem in which a paper promise to pay answers for the time instead of liquidation. We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man.”

“Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.”

“Treasure is stored in the ruined places.Do not break the hearts of the poorand heartbroken people”

“We know who is benevolent, by quite other means than the amount of subscriptions to soup-societies. It is only low merits that canbe enumerated.”

“Almost every Monday I have a charity thing. I like that. I do.”

“Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.”

“I deem it the duty of every man to devote a certain portion of his income for charitable purposes; and that it is his further duty to see it so applied and to do the most good for which it is capable.”

“Americans will feed anyone that's not close to them.”

“People are marvelous in their generosity, if they just know the cause is there.”

“That's the trouble with our charities; we are always saving somebody away off, when the fellow next to us ain't eating.”

“Is it not when the fall is the lowest that charity ought to be the greatest?”

“Charity and personal force are the only investments worth anything.”

“The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him”

“Men may have given millions of dollars and fed rats and cats, as some do in India. They say that men can take care of themselves, but the poor animals cannot. . .”

“Every time you think of doing some charity, you think there is some beggar to take your charity. If you say, "O Lord, let the world be full of charitable people!" - you mean, let the world be full of beggars also. Let the world be full of good works - let the world be full of misery. This is out-and-out slavishness!”

“The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his 'basic rights.'”

“Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.”

“Ah! There you are! he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. I'm so glad to see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and spoons?”

“Charity opens the heart.”

“Be grateful that the poor man is there, so that by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself”

“It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities.”

“What good being object of charity? Give away, ne'er turn to ask in return, Should there be the wealth treasured in thy heart.”

“We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.”

“Charity never faileth.”

“Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong”

“The guiding motive of mankind should be charity towards men, charity towards all animals.”

“Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, here, my poor man, but be grateful that the poor man is there, so by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself.It is not the reciever that is blessed, but it is the giver.Be thankful that you are allowed to exercise your power of benevolence and mercy in the world, and thus become pure and perfect.”

“Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance. So Ambrosius says, and it is also to be found in the Decretum Gratiani: The bread which you withhold belongs to the hungry: the clothing you shut away, to the naked: and the money you bury in the earth is the redemption and freedom of the penniless.”

“Charity is love; not all love is charity.”

“Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance.”

“Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues.”

“The spirit of brotherhood recognizes of necessity both the need of self-help and also the need of helping others in the only way which every ultimately does great god, that is, of helping them to help themselves.”

“He who is dying of hunger must be fed rather than taught.”

“Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.”

“Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.”

“Simple rules for saving money: To save half, when you are fired by an eager impulse to contribute to a charity, wait and count to forty. To save three quarters, count sixty. To save all, count sixty-five.”

“There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity i am bought and sold; for them i will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots; and the thousandfold Relief Societies; - though i confess with shame i sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by i shall have the manhood to withhold.”

“The Jivanmukta ('the living free' or one who knows) alone is able to give real love, real charity, real truth, and it is truth alone that makes us free.”

“Not to give to those in need what is to you superfluous is akin to fraud.”

“The fruits of charity are joy, peace, and mercy; charity demands beneficence and fraternal correction; it is benevolence; it fosters reciprocity and remains disinterested and generous; it is friendship and communion: Love is itself the fulfillment of all our works. There is the goal; that is why we run: we run toward it, and once we reach it, in it we shall find rest.”

“You cannot attain to charity except through humility.”

“Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.”

“In what is necessary, unity; in what is not necessary, liberty and in all things charity.”

“Disturbers are to be rebuked, the low spirited to be encouraged, the infirm to be supported, objectors confuted, the treacherous guarded against, the unskilled taught, the lazy aroused, the contentious restrained, the haughty repressed, the poor relieved, the oppressed liberated, the good approved, the evil borne with, and all are to be loved!”

“Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.”

“Two works of mercy set a person free: Forgive and you will be forgiven, and give and you will receive.”

“Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.”

“Therefore, give to the poor. I beg you, I admonish you, I charge you, I command you to give.”

“In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.”