Quotes about Charity

Our need to give is every bit as desperate as the poor's need to receive.

Religious Americans donate more and volunteer more time to charitable institutions than do secular Americans.

We all have the duty to do good.

We only have what we give.

He that does good to another does good also to himself.

Give first, no matter what your circumstances may be.

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

Let him that desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction.

The Clintons claim to have built schools in Haiti. But the New York Times discovered that when it comes to the Clintons, "built" is a term with a very loose interpretation.

Somehow I had come to believe that because a person is in need, they are candidates for sympathy, not just charity. It was not that I wanted to buy her groceries, the government was already doing that. I wanted to buy her dignity. And yet, by judging her, I was the one taking her dignity away.

True charity never envies others when they prosper, nor rejoices in the calamities of others when they are in trouble.

Justifying faith is a grace that does not work, but simply trusts, rests, and leans on Christ (Romans 4:5). Sanctifying faith is a grace of which the very life is action. It works by charity (Galatians 5:6), and like a driving force, it moves the whole inward man.