Quotes about Charity
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
— Mother Teresa
If we live in peace ourselves, we in turn may bring peace to others. A peaceable man does more good than a learned one.
— Thomas a Kempis
I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'
— Joseph Addison
The rich man is not one who is in possession of much, but one who gives much.
— St. John Chrysostom
The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt.
— Ambrose of Milan
A man should make all he can, and give all he can.
— Nelson Rockefeller
The Masonic system represents a stupendous and beautiful fabric, founded on universal purity, to rule and direct our passions, to have faith and love in God, and charity toward man.
— William Howard Taft
Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one.
— Abraham Lincoln
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— Mother Teresa
The first proof of charity in a priest, especially a bishop, is poverty.
— Victor Hugo
Is it not when the fall is the lowest that charity ought to be the greatest?
— Victor Hugo
there is a point, moreover, at which the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confounded in a single word, Les Miserables; whose fault is it? And then, is it not when the fall is lowest that charity ought to be greatest?
— Victor Hugo