Almost every Monday I have a charity thing. I like that. I do. Read Summary
Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe. Read Summary
The character of a people may be ruined by charity. Read Summary
My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much so, that he never could be persuaded to keep slaves, for he pitied them so much: and a slave belonging to one of his brothers being once in his house, was treated by him with as much tenderness as his own children. Read Summary
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld. Read Summary
There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as 'caring' and 'sensitive' because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to try to do good with other people's money. Read Summary
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go. Read Summary
I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God. Read Summary
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world. Read Summary
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it. Read Summary
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. Read Summary
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. Read Summary
Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these, they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve. Read Summary
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Read Summary
Holy charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears. Read Summary
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. Read Summary
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door. Read Summary
Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits. Read Summary
You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity. Read Summary
To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole. Read Summary