quotations about charity
Charity is really self-interest masquerading under the form of altruism.
ANTHONY DE MELLO
Awareness
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess, neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.
JOHN LOCKE
"Of Goodness, The Conduct of the Understanding: Essays
Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
speech accepting the renomination for the Presidency, June 27, 1936
Charity should always be a constant.
EVA LARUE
"Eva LaRue: Allow Yourself The Guilt", People, September 28, 2009
Charity ain't giving people what you wants to give, it's giving people what they need to get.
TERRY PRATCHETT
Hogfather
Charity is the only lubricant that keeps the axle of the world creaking.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
We should be sure, when we rebuke a want of charity, to do it with charity.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
CHINUA ACHEBE
Anthills of the Savannah
For the first time in my life
I let myself be held
Like a big old baby
I surrender to your charity
SMOG
"Held", Knock Knock
As water collected in a tank gets pure by filtration, so accumulated wealth is preserved by being employed in charity.
CHANAKYA
Vridda-Chanakya
What is a charitable heart? It is a heart which is burning with love for the whole creation, for men, for the birds, for the beasts ... for all creatures. He who has such a heart cannot see or call to mind a creature without his eyes being filled with tears by reason of the immense compassion which seizes his heart; a heart which is softened and can no longer bear to see or learn from others of any suffering, even the smallest pain being inflicted upon a creature.
ISAAC OF NINEVEH
Mystic Treatises