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  • Charity begins at home, but should not end there. -- Thomas Fuller
  • Charity begins at home. -- Terence
  • Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does. -- Simone Weil
  • If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. -- Bob Hope
  • Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. -- Washington Irving
  • Charity never faileth. -- Swami Vivekananda
  • Charity cures heartaches. -- Nachman of Breslov
  • Charity opens the heart. -- Swami Vivekananda
  • Charity, vertical, humiliates. Solidarity, horizontal, helps. -- Eduardo Galeano
  • Charity is a very labour-intensive virtue. -- Garth Nix
  • Charity is not a government program. -- Joseph Farah
  • Charity should always be a constant. -- Eva LaRue
  • Charity creates a multitude of sins. -- Oscar Wilde
  • Charity and treating begin at home. -- John Fletcher
  • Charity is no substitute for justice withheld. -- Saint Augustine
  • Charity sees the need, not the cause. -- German Proverb
  • Charity is willingly given from the heart. -- Rush Limbaugh
  • Charity isn't a good substitute for justice. -- Jonathan Kozol
  • Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged. -- Chinua Achebe
  • Business Fights Poverty Better Than Charity Does -- Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion. -- Joseph Addison
  • Charity with a smile shows the donor's character. -- Nachman of Breslov
  • Charity is merely returning what we have stolen. -- Shane Claiborne
  • Charity isn't about pity, it is about love. -- Mother Teresa
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  • Charity is an eternal debt and without limit. -- Pasquier Quesnel
  • The living need charity more than the dead. -- George Arnold
  • Charity is love; not all love is charity. -- Thomas Aquinas
  • Charity is taking an ugly girl to lunch. -- Warren Beatty
  • Charity is the root of all good works. -- Saint Augustine
  • Charity you can give even when you haven't got. -- Bernard Malamud
  • Charity should be abolished; and be replaced by justice. -- Norman Bethune
  • Charity erodes the cultural prerequisites for a vigorous democracy. -- Janet Poppendieck
  • Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door. -- Charles Dickens
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  • Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront. -- Edward Abbey
  • Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven. -- Henry Ward Beecher
  • Charity and personal force are the only investments worth anything. -- Walt Whitman
  • Charity brings to life again those who are spiritually dead. -- Thomas Aquinas
  • Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world. -- Thomas Browne
  • Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. -- Phillips Brooks
  • Charity can be the outward expression of faith and hope. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • The Celebrity Charity Industrial Complex Makes a Mockery of Compassion -- Dean Cavanagh
  • Charity is only as warm as those who administer it. -- Dorothy Day
  • Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice. -- William Sloane Coffin
  • I never used the press for anything except my charity. -- Heather Mills
  • Charity, like the sun, brightens every object on which it shines. -- Confucius
  • Charity always feels better to the donor than to the recipient. -- Joy Browne
  • Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there. -- Elbert Hubbard
  • Charity is suppose to cover up for a multitude of sins. -- Bob Dylan
  • Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government. -- James Madison
  • Charity is the drowning of justice in the craphole of mercy. -- Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
  • Charity, like poetry, should be cultivated, if only for its being graceful. -- Herman Melville
  • Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it. -- George Sand
  • Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all. -- Richard Baxter
  • Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor. -- Muhammad Yunus
  • Faith is knowing and thinking truths. Charity is willing and doing them. -- Emanuel Swedenborg
  • Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. -- Francis of Assisi
  • Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands. -- Joseph Addison
  • We must give alms. Charity wins souls and draws them to virtue. -- Angela Merici
  • Charity itself fulfills the law. And who can sever love from charity? -- William Shakespeare
  • Hope is a leg of a 3-legged stool with Faith and Charity. -- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
  • Charity that does not change the situation of the poor isn't enough. -- Pope Francis
  • Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues. -- Thomas Aquinas
  • Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it. -- John D. Rockefeller
  • Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship. -- Thomas Aquinas
  • Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues. -- Hugh Kingsmill
  • Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table. -- Bill Moyers
  • Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable. -- Charles Caleb Colton
  • Charity is ... a universal remedy against discord, and an holy cement for mankind. -- William Penn
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  • Charity is false, futile, and poisonous when offered as a substitute for justice. -- Henry George
  • Let shining Charity adorn your zeal, The noblest impulse generous minds can feel. -- Aaron Hill
  • Charity is the soul of faith, makes it alive; without love, faith dies. -- Anthony of Padua
  • Charity has always been a expression of the guilty consciences of a ruling class. -- Doris Lessing
  • Did Charity prevail, the press would prove A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love. -- William Cowper
  • Charity is the cement which binds Communities to God and persons to one another . . . -- Vincent de Paul
  • Tolerance is not a Christian value. Charity, justice, mercy, prudence, honesty--these are Christian values. -- Charles J. Chaput
  • In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. -- Alexander Pope
  • Charity is to will and do what is just and right in every transaction. -- Emanuel Swedenborg
  • Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. -- Nelson Mandela
  • Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. -- Mark Twain
  • Charity is not an act but a way of life, a condition of the heart. -- Robert L. Millet
  • The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. -- William James
  • Charity alone, or love and compassion, is what joins [the Lord and a person] together. -- Emanuel Swedenborg
  • Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots. -- Frank A. Clark
  • Charity is that with which no man is lost, and without which no man is saved. -- Robert Bellarmine
  • Charity is without fear: having given all that it has, it has nothing left to lose. -- Thomas Merton
  • Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself. -- Walt Whitman
  • Charity and devotion differ no more, the one from the other, than the flame from the fire. -- Saint Francis de Sales
  • Charity must become a fundamental state of mind and heart that guides us in all we do. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • Charity is one of those remarkable words that helps to identify the fault lines of a culture. -- Janet Poppendieck
  • Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear. -- Chanakya
  • Charity plays an important role in upholding the values and advancing the work of the United Nations. -- Ban Ki-moon
  • Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left. -- Fulton J. Sheen
  • The first rule of Evernight is that any vampire who seeks sanctuary must be given a place." -Charity -- Claudia Gray
  • Charity should be blind to everything but need. Our personal feelings should not determine whose starvation is legitimate. -- Michael Redhill
  • Charity is a flower not naturally of earthly growth, and it needs manuring with a promise of profit. -- Ouida
  • How white are the fair robes of Charity as she walketh amid the lowly habitations of the poor! -- Hosea Ballou
  • I call my putter 'Sweet Charity' because it covers such a multitude of sins from tee to green. -- Gardner Dickinson
  • No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. -- Calvin Coolidge
  • Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you. -- Mother Teresa
  • Charity, patience and tenderness are very beautiful gifts. If you have them, you want to share them with others. -- Pope Francis
  • Charity is great, but the moment you say it is all, you run the risk of running into materialism. -- Swami Vivekananda
  • Charity itself consists in acting justly and faithfully in whatever office, business and employment a person is engaged in. -- Emanuel Swedenborg
  • Charity ... is kind, it is not easily provok'd, it thinks no evil, it believes all things, hopes all things. -- Cotton Mather
  • Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed onto mankind. -- Conrad Hilton
  • You can't run from feelings, Charity. You have to face them. Otherwise your future will look just like your past. -- Elizabeth Jane Howard
  • Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable. -- William Wycherley
  • Charity is that sweet-smelling savor of Jesus Christ, which vanishes and is extinguished from the moment that it is exposed. -- Jean Baptiste Massillon
  • Charity requires sacrifice, and members of Congress could set a good example of charity by giving up their pay increase. -- Tom Coburn
  • Charity in the theater begins and ends with those who have a play opening within a week of one's own. -- Moss Hart
  • Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich. -- Evita Peron
  • You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. -- Khalil Gibran
  • Charity keepeth us in Faith and Hope, and Hope leadeth us in Charity. And in the end all shall be Charity. -- Julian of Norwich
  • Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Charity consists not so much on HOW MUCH WE GIVE to the person but on HOW MUCH WE KEEP FOR OURSELVES -- Gregory Ramkissoon
  • Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera. -- Honore de Balzac
  • I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue. -- Lord Byron
  • Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God. -- St. Catherine of Siena
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