Charity Quotes
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Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues.
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The spiritual life is a stern choice. It is not a consoling retreat from the difficulties of existence; but an invitation to enter fully into that difficult existence, and there apply the Charity of God and bear the cost.
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Sir Humphrey's stories about Africa made Charity feel exactly like one of his stuffed trophy heads -- lifeless and glassy eyed. The only difference was that she usually ended up face-down, slumbering on the sofa, instead of hung up on the wall.
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Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
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I despise charity. It gives crumbs to a few and silences the others.
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There's nothing more rewarding than making a difference doing charity work or being able to be there for a friend.
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I think I was the beneficiary of a little bit of charity.
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As I "won," I didn't feel the fruits of that. I felt the fruits when I served others, when I gave myself away. . . . I've always seen my life as an experiment. I just want to go to what works. As I felt the charity aspect in my life, the giving aspect, I felt a power and I've walked more into that.
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Death makes a beautiful appeal to charity. When we look upon the dead form, so composed and still, the kindness and the love that are in us all come forth.
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I never used the press for anything except my charity.
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Charity liked brandy. She liked the way it burned her throat while soothing the ache in her heart.
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Charity is love; not all love is charity.
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I realized that I had the call to take care of the sick and the dying, the hungry, the naked, the homeless - to be God's Love in action to the poorest of the poor. That was the beginning of the Missionaries of Charity.
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Real charity is giving from the heart without taking credit.
