Quotes about Charity

It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

We must practice living deeply, loving, and acting with charity if we wish to truly honor Jesus.

Yet Dives himself, he too lives like a Czar in an ice palace made of frozen sighs, and being a president of a temperance society, he only drinks the tepid tears of orphans.

A sure indicator of true religion is a concern for the poor of the earth.

Let no one go hungry away. If any of the kind of people should be in want of corn, supply their necessities, provided it does not encourage them in idleness.

Charity, patience and tenderness are very beautiful gifts. If you have them, you want to share them with others.

We have no salaries. When one says he is from a good Catholic family and says he wants to help us, why should we refuse his offer?

Though the world may often appear to be more charitable than the church, it is crucial to remember that, for the church, the care of the poor cannot be separated from the worship of God.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Charity is merely returning what we have stolen.

I'm just not convinced that Jesus is going to say, "When I was hungry, you gave a check to the United Way and they fed me," or, "When I was naked, you donated clothes to the Salvation Army and they clothed me." Jesus is not seeking distant acts of charity. He seeks concrete acts of love: "you fed me…you visited me in prison…you welcomed me into your home…you clothed me.

True generosity is measured not by how much we give away but by how much we have left, especially when we look at the needs of our neighbors. We have no right not to be charitable. The early Christians taught that charity is merely returning what we have stolen. In the seventeenth century, St. Vincent de Paul said that when he gives bread to the beggars, he gets on his knees and asks forgiveness from them.