Charity
Love; universal benevolence; good will.
Liberality in judging of men and their actions; a disposition which inclines men to put the best construction on the words and actions of others.
Liberality to the poor and the suffering, to benevolent institutions, or to worthy causes; generosity.
Whatever is bestowed gratuitously on the needy or suffering for their relief; alms; any act of kindness.
A charitable institution, or a gift to create and support such an institution; as, Lady Margaret's charity.
Eleemosynary appointments [grants or devises] including relief of the poor or friendless, education, religious culture, and public institutions.
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Charity Quotations
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
Charity creates a multitude of sins.
Oscar Wilde
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
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
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
Henry Ford
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
Saint Augustine
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
Albert Camus
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
Charles Dickens
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
Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.
Walt Whitman
Charity Translations
charity in Afrikaans is naasteliefde
charity in Dutch is naastenliefde, menslievendheid
charity in Italian is amore del prossimo, mantenimento
charity in Latin is sanctimonia
charity in Spanish is caridad
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