"Objects of charity are not guests."
Read quote
3 likes
Charity quotes
Charity
676 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Charity
Browse quotes that often appear alongside charity — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Charity quotes (page 12 of 34)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else."
Read quote
3 likes
"The wonderful purity of nature at this season is a most pleasing fact.... In the bare fields and tinkling woods, see what virtue survives. In the coldest and bleakest places, the warmest charities still maintain a foothold."
Read quote
3 likes
"You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it."
Read quote
3 likes
"Large charity doth never soil, but only whitens soft white hands."
Read quote
3 likes
"The good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end."
Read quote
3 likes
"There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge."
Read quote
3 likes
"You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?"
Read quote
3 likes
"Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity."
Read quote
3 likes
"It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity."
Read quote
3 likes
"The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity."
Read quote
3 likes
"No amount of money given in charity, nothing but the abandonment of this hateful trade, can atone for this great sin against God, Israel and Humanity."
Read quote
3 likes
"In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money."
Read quote
3 likes
"Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity."
Read quote
3 likes
"Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene"
Read quote
3 likes
"How can one be compassionate if you belong to any religion, follow any guru, believe in something, believe in your scriptures, and so on, attached to a conclusion? When you accept your guru, you have come to a conclusion, or when you strongly believe in god or in a saviour, this or that, can there be compassion? You may do social work, help the poor out of pity, out of sympathy, out of charity, but is all that love and compassion?"
Read quote
3 likes
"Philanthropy, charity, giving voluntarily and freely... call it what you like, but it is truly a jewel of an American tradition."
Read quote
3 likes
"If the Gospel and the Apostles may be credited, no man can be a Christian without charity, and without that faith which works, not by force, but by love."
Read quote
3 likes
"The able bodied poor don't want or need charity.... All they need is financial capital."
Read quote
3 likes
"If you are looking for vocations, as a community have adoration every day. Once the Missionaries of Charity started daily adoration, their vocations doubled"
Read quote
3 likes