50 Quotes About Charity

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

On the essentials, unity. On the nonessentials, liberty. In everything, charity.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

God has chosen us to help one another.

We cannot all go to the foreign field. We must express our interest in those who have not had our opportunities by our gifts. Much of the service we render in our own land must be rendered in the same way. But when that is said, the fact still remains that there is nothing that will take the place of our hand-to-hand dealing with those who need us. We cannot perform all our charities by proxy. We must come in personal contact with those whom we would help.

Nothing is more pleasing to God than an open hand, and a closed mouth.

We are not cisterns made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

When we first arrived and saw the overwhelming destruction, many people asked where you even begin to respond? It starts with helping just one person, one family at a time, and doing what we can to give people relief and a sense of hope.

The place of charity, like that of God, is everywhere.

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, who opens it hath it twice told.

Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive.

Let each of us learn to abide in Christ with the heart open to Him on the one hand, and open to men, women and children on the other.

As a fresh start, the church should give away all her endowments to the poor and needy.

There cannot be a surer rule, nor a stronger exhortation to the observance of it, than when we are taught that all the endowments which we possess are divine deposits entrusted to us for the very purpose of being distributed for the good of our neighbor.

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.

In giving of thine alms inquire not so much into the person, as his necessity. God looks not so much on the merits of him that requires, as to the manner of him that relieves. If the man deserve not, thou hast given to humanity.

There is no such merchant as the charitable man; he gives trifles which he could not keep, to receive treasure which he cannot lose.

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

Since much wealth too often proves a snare and an encumbrance in the Christian's race, let him lighten the weight by 'dispersing abroad and giving to the poor'; whereby he will both soften the pilgrimage of his fellow travelers, and speed his own way the faster.

He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

The words which all of us shall one Day hear sound not of theology but of life, not of churches and saints, but of the hungry and the poor, not of creeds and doctrines, but of shelter and clothing, not of Bibles and prayer-books, but of cups of cold water in the name of Christ.

God's greatest blessings are upon those who show the proper respect for the poor and the needy.

The riches we impart are the only wealth we shall always retain.

He that rightly understands the reasonableness and Excellency of charity will know that it can never be excusable to waste any of our money in pride and folly.

Give me the Charity which delights not in exposing the weakness of others, but "covereth all things."

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

Christianity teacheth me that what I charitably give alive, I carry with me dead; and experience teacheth me that what I leave behind, I lose. I will carry that treasure with me by giving it, which the worldling loseth by keeping it; so, while his corpse shall carry nothing but a winding cloth to his grave, I shall be richer under the earth than I was above it.

Feel for others - in your pocket.

God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.

If our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements, etc., is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving away too little. If our charities do not at all pinch or hamper us, I should say they are too small. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot because our charitable expenditure excludes them.

Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

He is truly great who hath a great charity.

The clothes we wear are what people see. Only God can look on the heart. The outward signs are important. They reveal something of what is inside. If charity is there, it will become visible outwardly, but if you have no charitable feelings, you can still obey the command. Put it on as simply and consciously as you put on a coat. You choose it; you pick it up; you put it on. This is what you want to wear.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

Christian life consists in faith and charity.

We ought to be people of compassion. And being people of compassion means we deny ourselves, and our self centeredness.

It is the glory of the true religion that it inculcates and inspires a spirit of benevolence. It is a religion of charity, which none other ever was. Christ went about doing good; he set the example to his disciples, and they abounded in it.

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

Let the lips of the poor be the trumpet of thy gift, lest in seeking applause, thou lose thy reward.

Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they possess, and should show their wealth to be more in doing good than merely in having it. They should not reserve their benevolence for purposes after they are dead, for those who give not of their property till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

He that gives all, though but little gives much; because God looks not to the quantity of the gift, but to the quality of the givers.

There will come a time when three words, uttered with charity and meekness, shall receive a far more blessed reward than three thousand volumes written with disdainful sharpness of wit.

Proportion thy charity to the strength of thine estate, lest God in anger proportion thine estate to the weakness of thy charity.

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unrepressed on earth.