quotations about charity
Charity is really self-interest masquerading under the form of altruism.
ANTHONY DE MELLO
Awareness
Charity is the only lubricant that keeps the axle of the world creaking.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
Charity should always be a constant.
EVA LARUE
"Eva LaRue: Allow Yourself The Guilt", People, September 28, 2009
Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
speech accepting the renomination for the Presidency, June 27, 1936
Charity, we are told in the Bible, "covers a multitude of sins." By this, I believe, we understand that by our charity we will cover or hide, and not expose the faults of others. How many of us have this sort of charity? Very few, I fear; but how many of us might have it, if we tried more to do unto others as we'd have others do to us? Charity is a beautiful trait in the character of any individual; it shows love, meekness, purity, holiness, and more than the mere foundation of a Christian; it shows a heart that can feel for another, with love and sympathy dwelling therein, and one that will be ever ready to do its best to turn sadness into gladness, to rouse to new life the weary and desponding, to help to let light into the darkened soul of many a frail one, and to pilot many a disabled vessel across the troubled ocean they are on to a haven of rest and safety. Charity, in a word, is brotherly love.
T. AUGUSTUS FORBES LEITH
Short Essays
Charity ain't giving people what you wants to give, it's giving people what they need to get.
TERRY PRATCHETT
Hogfather
We should be sure, when we rebuke a want of charity, to do it with charity.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
For the first time in my life
I let myself be held
Like a big old baby
I surrender to your charity
SMOG
"Held", Knock Knock
While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
CHINUA ACHEBE
Anthills of the Savannah
As water collected in a tank gets pure by filtration, so accumulated wealth is preserved by being employed in charity.
CHANAKYA
Vridda-Chanakya
What is a charitable heart? It is a heart which is burning with love for the whole creation, for men, for the birds, for the beasts ... for all creatures. He who has such a heart cannot see or call to mind a creature without his eyes being filled with tears by reason of the immense compassion which seizes his heart; a heart which is softened and can no longer bear to see or learn from others of any suffering, even the smallest pain being inflicted upon a creature.
ISAAC OF NINEVEH
Mystic Treatises