(486 quotes found)
“Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise, this dignity would make him horribly vain, or this humiliation would make him terribly abject.”
Blaise Pascal
“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”
James Madison
“Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.”
St. Francis of Assisi
“Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.”
Moliere
“All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.”
Evelyn Underhill
“Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself”
Walt Whitman
“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
“Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.”
“A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.”
Ralph Nader
“The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms”
Bertrand Russell
