(449 quotes found)
“Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.”
Albert Camus
“Christmas gift suggestions:To your enemy, forgiveness.To an opponent, tolerance.To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.”
Oren Arnold
“A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.”
Jack London
“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
“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
“Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.”
St. Francis of Assisi
“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.”
St. Thomas Aquinas
“Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.”
Moliere
“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
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