Quotes about Charitable Deeds
He who hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none.
— Lancelot Andrewes
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.
— Phillips Brooks
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead
— St. John Chrysostom
Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.
— Henry David Thoreau
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'
— Joseph Addison
Is it not when the fall is the lowest that charity ought to be the greatest?
— Victor Hugo
Charity isn't about pity, it is about love.
— Mother Teresa
None of us can help everyone. But all of us can help someone. And when we help them, we serve Jesus.
— Max Lucado
Happiness happens when you give." Doing good does good for the doer.
— Max Lucado
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angles, but am note nice, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but am not nice, I am nothing. If I give all I posses to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but am not nice, I gain nothing.
— Ben Carson