(486 quotes found)
“Charity sees the need, not the cause”
German Proverb
“The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.”
Homer
“Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.”
Chanakya
“It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
“The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.”
Saint Augustine
“A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this / that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made / not to understand / but to feel / as crime.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“Peace, like charity, begins at home”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.”
Rita Mae Brown
“These three are the marks of a Jew - a tender heart, self-respect, and charity”
Hebrew Proverb
