Famous Charity Quotes Part – 16

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The primal duties shine aloft, like stars; The charities that soothe and heal and bless Are scattered at the feet of man like flowers.’ William Wordsworth

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The secret pleasure of a generous act, is the great mind’s great bribe.

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The shepherds led the pilgrims to Mount Charity, where they showed them a man that had a bundle of cloth lying before him, out of which he cut coats and garments for the poor that stood about him; yet his bundle or roll of cloth was never the less. Then said they: ‘What should this be?’ ‘This is,’ said the shepherds, ‘to show you that he who has a heart to give of his labor to the poor shall never want wherewithal. ‘He that watereth shall be watered himself.’ And the cake that the widow gave to the prophet did not cause that she had the less in her barrel.’

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The smallest act of charity shall stand us in great stead.

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The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in his own body. Its life, to a great extent, is a mere reflex of the lives of others. It migrates into their bodies, and identifying its existence with their existence, finds its own happiness in increasing and prolonging their pleasures, in extinguishing or solacing their pains.

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The spirit of the world encloses four kinds of spirits, diametrically opposed to charity–the spirit of resentment, spirit of aversion, spirit of jealousy and the spirit of indifference.

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The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

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The value of life is measured not by its devotion but by its donation.

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The voice of the world [‘Charity begins at home’].

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The voice of the world Charity begins at home.

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‘The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.’

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There can be no Christianity where there is no charity.

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There is a subtle, semantic distinction between charity and philanthropy, although the latter carries with it more of the connotation of large-scale giving — and not necessarily to the poor and suffering.

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There is no charity in a man’s leaving money in his will; he has simply got to leave it. The time to administer your trust is while you are still living.

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There is no dearth of charity in the world in giving, but there is comparatively little exercised in thinking and speaking.

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There is no real religious experience that does not express itself in charity.

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There is no virtue can be sooner missed or later welcomed; it begins the rest, and sets them all in order.

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They believe with him in the charity event they’ll be able to raise it.

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They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they’ve heard of unemployment and they’ve heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball.

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Think not you are charitable if the love of Jesus and His brethren be not purely the motive of your gifts. Alas! you might not give your superfluities, but ‘bestow all your goods to feed the poor;’ you might even ‘give your body to be burned’ for them, and yet be utterly destitute of charity, if self-seeking, self-pleasing or self-ends guide you; and guide you they must, until the love of God be by the Holy Ghost shed abroad in your heart.


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