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I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbors'defects--not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues. -- Therese of Lisieux
In a word: charity cannot be neutral, antiseptic, indifferent, lukewarm or impartial! Charity is infectious, it excites, it risks, and it engages! For true charity is always unmerited, unconditional, and gratuitous! -- Pope Francis
Service changes people. It refines, purifies, gives a finer perspective, and brings out the best in each one of us. It gets us looking outward instead of inward. Righteous service is the expression of true charity, such as the Savior showed. -- Derek A. Cuthbert
Collectivists would have you believe that individualism is merely another word for selfishness, because individualists oppose welfare and other forms of coercive redistribution of wealth, but just the opposite is true. Individualists advocate true charity, which is the voluntary giving of their own money, while collectivists advocate the coercive giving of other people's money; which, of course, is why it is so popular. -- G. Edward Griffin
True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense. -- Emanuel Swedenborg
There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation. -- Francois Rabelais
Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows. -- Moliere
True charity is liable to excesses and transports. -- Jean Baptiste Massillon
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True charity occurs only when there are no notions of giving, giver, or gift. -- Gautama Buddha
True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. -- Paulo Freire
God bless thee; and put meekness in thy breast, Love, charity, obedience, and true duty! -- William Shakespeare
Love and charity for the whole human race, that is the test of true religiousness. -- Swami Vivekananda
True charity consists in doing good to those who do us evil, and in thus winning them over. -- Alphonsus Liguori
True charity ought to begin in marriage, for it is a relationship that must be rebuilt every day. -- James E. Faust
True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation. -- Hosea Ballou
How can we know the true meaning of charity if we don't even know how to help those closest to us? -- Sarah Addison Allen
True charity requires courage: Let us overcome the fear of getting our hands dirty so as to help those in need. -- Pope Francis
True charity consists in putting up with all one's neighbors fault's; never being surprised by his weakness, and being inspired by the least of his virtues. -- Therese of Lisieux
That is not true I am not a greedy man because if I was why would i donate money to charity?I care about others as well. -- John D. Rockefeller
Hope is the mainspring of human action; faith seals our lease of immortality; and charity and love give the passport to the soul's true and lasting happiness. -- Alfred Billings Street
Equality before the law in a true democracy is a matter of right. It cannot be a matter of charity or of favor or of grace or of discretion. -- Wiley Blount Rutledge

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