Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate.
More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else...All our lauded technological progress-our very civilization-is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.
Charity is not an act but a way of life, a condition of the heart.
If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.
You cannot attain to charity except through humility.
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead
Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
Seek no praise, no reward, for anything you do. No sooner do we perform a good action than we begin to desire credit for it. No sooner do we give money to some charity than we want to see our names blazoned in the papers. Misery must come as the result of such desires.
Test everything, try everything, and then believe it, and if you find it for the good of many, give it to all.
Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.
Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellow man, either by a considerable gift or a sum of money or by teaching him a trade or by putting him in the way of business so that he may earn an honest livelihood and not be forced to the dreadful alternative of holding out his hand for charity. This is the highest step and summit of charity's golden ladder.
Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.
An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
No one has ever become poor by giving.
To give requires good sense.
Many ... begin to make converts from motives of charity, but continue to do so from motives of pride. ... Charity is contented with exhortation and example, but pride is not to be so easily satisfied. ... Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity.
Peace, like charity, begins at home.
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