Quotes about Charity

The Lord's way to help those in temporal need requires people who out of love have consecrated themselves and what they have to God and to His work.

To be a Christian is to be obligated to be charitable. This is true whether you are rich or poor, healthy or ill, old or young, male or female, oppressed or free, established or disestablished.

I love to give to charity, but I don't want to be charity. This is why I have so much trouble with grace.

There are a lot of people doing social justice things, which is great. But we can't just say, 'Here's some food. Here's some stuff.' We have to be able to give the gospel, share the hope and have a real heart for that.

I don't usually talk about the social work I do because I don't do it for publicity. If I can bring a smile to the face of a few children in this one lifetime, I'd be happy.

We are all receiving Charity. There is something in each of us that cannot benaturally loved.

The great moral powers of the soul are faith, hope, and love.

Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and sheltering our brothers, we must indoctrinate.

It's amazing how people will give when you don't ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

All men who live only according to their five senses, and seek nothing beyond the gratification of their natural appetites for pleasure and reputation and power, cut themselves off from that charity which is the principle of all spiritual vitality and happiness because it alone saves us from the barren wilderness of our own abominable selfishness.

It is by desiring to grow in love that we receive the Holy Spirit, and the thirst for more charity is the effect of this more abundant reception.