Quotes about Charity

The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.

Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.

To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.

Love is the queen of all the Christain graces.

In the poor and outcast we see Christ's face; by loving and helping the poor, we love and serve Christ.

Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.

Love is forgiving and Love is for giving.

Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions.

Get to know the poor in your country. Love them. Serve them.

There are always two sides to every story, and it is generally wise, and safe, and charitable, to take the best; and yet there is probably no one way in which persons are so liable to be wrong, as in presuming the worst is true, and in forming and expressing their judgement of others, and of their actions, without waiting till all the truth is known.

The apostle in instructing and counselling Timothy concerning the work of the ministry, informs him that the great end of that word which a minister is to preach, is love or charity, 1 Tim. 3, 4, 5.

In short, were a man to "give all his goods to feed the poor, and his body to be burned," out of zeal to promote some public good, yet without love to God, without benevolent attachment to universal being, he is morally nothing, or worse than nothing.