charity

1.

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.

- Swift, Jonathan

2.

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

- Woolf, Virginia

3.

Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, they have their reward. But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth. [Mathew 6:2-3]

- Bible

4.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. I do not agree with the big way of doing things.

- Mother Teresa

5.

The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable.

- Buckminster, J. S.

6.

Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.

- Bernard, St.

7.

Teach us to give and not count the cost.

- Loyola, St. Ignatius

8.

Real charity doesn't care if it's tax-deductible or not.

- Dan Bennett

9.

In charity there is no excess.

- Sir Francis Bacon

10.

DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and daughters. All hail, Delusion! Were it not for thee The world turned topsy-turvy we should see; For Vice, respectable with cleanly fancies, Would fly abandoned Virtue's gross advances. Mumfrey Mappel

- Ambrose Bierce

11.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds. . . to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.

- Abraham Lincoln

12.

We can never establish with certainty what part of our relations with others is the result of our emotions -- love, antipathy, charity, or malice -- and what part is predetermined by the constant power play among individuals.

- Kundera, Milan

13.

Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.

- Hubbard, Elbert

14.

Charity begins at home.

- Terence

15.

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

- Rockefeller, John D.

16.

In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.

- Alexander The Great

17.

I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes -- and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue.

- Byron, Lord

18.

The charitable give out the door and God puts it back through the window.

- Proverb

19.

The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.

- Homer

20.

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

- Home, Henry