Charity Quotes

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
Abraham Lincoln

Work, God, Nation

Charity creates a multitude of sins.
Oscar Wilde

Sins, Multitude, Creates

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Great, Men, Grateful

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
Henry Ford

Wrong, Poverty, Crime

Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
Washington Irving

Christmas, Heart, Fire

We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.
Davy Crockett

Money, Give, Away

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.
Barack Obama

Love, Freedom, Patriotism

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
Albert Camus

Order, Practice, Generosity

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
Edgar Allan Poe

Religion, Men, Strong

Almost every Monday I have a charity thing. I like that. I do.
Yogi Berra

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.
Walt Whitman

Give, Behold, Lectures

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
Francis of Assisi

Fear, Wisdom, Ignorance

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

God, Gratitude, Him

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
Bob Hope

Heart, Trouble, Worst

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
Saint Augustine

Justice, Substitute, Withheld

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
John D. Rockefeller

Become, Unless, Helps

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
Charles Dickens

Home, Justice, Door

People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.
Thomas Sowell

Money, Often, Themselves

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
Jack London

Dog, Hungry, Shared

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
Thomas Fuller

Home, End, Begins

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life, Dreams, Service

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.
Charles Dickens

Few, Less, Excitement

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.
Virginia Woolf

Mind, Heart, Tolerance

I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.
E. O. Wilson

Deep, Christian, Others

The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.
Homer

Others, Precious, Trifle

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
Simone Weil

Love, God, Nothing

Charity is willingly given from the heart.
Rush Limbaugh

Heart, Willingly

Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
Moliere

Good, True, Act

A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
Ralph Nader

Society, Justice, Less

Charity is a fine thing if it's meeting a gap where needs must be met and there are no other resources. But in the long term we need to support people into helping themselves.
Annie Lennox

Long, Themselves, Support

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