C Quotes
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“Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it.”
“Charity feeds the poor, so does pride; charity builds an hospital, so does pride. In this they differ: charity gives her glory to God; pride takes her glory from man.”
Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles
“Charity fulfils the law of Christ.”
“Charity groped for the phone, coming up with it at last and croaking "hello" in a voice that sounded exactly like a bullfrog's mating call. Which made a kind of twisted sense - last night she'd been hunting for a mate as well.”
“Charity had always slightly creeped me out: There was nothing quite as condescending as the phrase "helping the less fortunate" rolling off the tongue of a white professional, as if poverty were a matter of luck instead of the result of a political system.”
Source: Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion
“Charity," he said. "She's gone."
I held up the note. "She went to the store for pizza and ice cream. Pregnancy cravings, I guess."
Michael came down the stairs and brushed past me. Then he reached into the entry hall closet and pulled out a blue Levi's jacket and Amoracchius in its black scabbard.
"What are you waiting for, Harry? Let's go find her."
"But your kids--"
Michael rolled his eyes, took a step to the door, and jerked it open without looking away from me. Father Forthill stood on the other side, his thinning hair windblown, his bright blue eyes surprised behind his wire-rimmed spectacles. "Oh. Michael. I didn't mean to stop by so late, but my car stalled only a block away from here on the way back from taking Mrs. Hamish home, and I thought I might borrow--" He paused, looking from me to Michael and then back to me again. "You need a baby-sitter again, don't you."
Michael shrugged into his jacket and slung the sword belt over his shoulder. "They're already asleep. Do you mind?"
Father Forthill stepped in. "Never." He made the Cross over each of us again and murmured, "God go with you."
We started out of the house and to Michael's truck. "You see, Harry?"
I scowled. "Handy fringe benefit.”
Source: Grave Peril
“Charity
In charity lies happiness and bliss,
If you haven’t done charity, you may miss,
The power to love and share,
Charity gives you happiness beyond compare.”
“Charity in the theater begins and ends with those who have a play opening within a week of one's own.”
“Charity in the theatre usually begins and ends with people who have a play opening the week following one's own. Their unlikely benevolence is not so much a purity of heart as the knowledge that they face a firing line with rifles aimed in exactly the same direction.”
Source: act one
“Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often; but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom honored.”
Source: Moths. The marquis's tactics. Meleagris Gallopavo. Guilderoy
“Charity is ... a universal remedy against discord, and an holy cement for mankind.”
Source: The Select Works of William Penn....
“charity is a calm, severe duty; it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever be considered a merit; its fulfillment is only what we owe to each other, and is a debt never paid to its full extent.”
Source: The Complete Works of L. E. Landon ...
“Charity is a character of Christ.”
“Charity is a cold grey loveless thing. If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.”
“Charity is a cop-out so traditionally female in its apparent self-effacement that there seems resonant comfort in it. We're no longer supposed to serve the imaginations of men who have dominated us. We are to give up ourselves instead to those whose suffering is greater than our own. Looking down is just as distorting as looking up and as dangerous in perpetuating hierarchies.”
Source: A Hot-Eyed Moderate: Essays
“Charity is a fine thing if it's meeting a gap where needs must be met and there are no other resources. But in the long term we need to support people into helping themselves.”
“Charity is a flower not naturally of earthly growth, and it needs manuring with a promise of profit.”
Source: Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida
“Charity is a naked child, giving honey to a bee without wings.”
Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles
“Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed on to mankind. It is the virtue that unites men and inspires their noblest efforts.”
“Charity is a very labour-intensive virtue.”
“Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.”
Source: The Guardian
“Charity is always so beautiful, no matter how little you give to others.”
“Charity is an act of compassion.”
“Charity is an eternal debt and without limit.”
“Charity is an ugly trick. It is a virtue grown by the rich on the graves of the poor. Unless it is accompanied by sincere revolt against the present social system, it is a cheap moral swagger. In former times it was used as fire insurance by the rich, but now that the fear of Hell has gone along with the rest of revealed religion, it is used either to gild mean lives with nobility or as a political instrument.”
Source: The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17
“Charity is an unending self-discipline which always looks and leads towards the eternal affection. Therefore, its triumph shall be lasting and everlasting.”
“Charity is another passion of mine and I think it's important to give back. I'm a lucky guy, I've had a great life, I have a great family. I'm very blessed that way, so I believe in giving back a lot.”
“Charity is appeased when some rich person gives money to the poor while justice asks why one person can be that rich when so many are poor.”
Source: The Holy Longing: The Search for a Christian Spirituality
“Charity is commendable; everyone should be charitable. But justice aims to create a social order in which, if individuals choose not to be charitable, people still don't go hungry, unschooled or sick without care. Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance.”
“Charity is compassion.”
“Charity is Equal Opportunity. Anyone who wishes to give should be allowed to give. I once came upon an author hosting a charitable event who wouldn't allowed certain authors to participate in the event. Only the authors she wished to be associated with so she can ride on their coattails were allowed to participate. This is not charity. It builds resentment towards the charity she was supposedly representing. She became a NY Times bestselling author because of that association, but is it worth the deceit to get there? - Strong by Kailin Gow on Charities”
“Charity is from person to person; and it loses half, far more than half, its moral value when the giver is not brought into personal relation with those to whom he gives.”
Source: The nemesis of faith: or, The history of Markham Sutherland
“Charity is great, but the moment you say it is all, you run the risk of running into materialism.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Charity is having patience with someone who has let us down. It is resisting the impulse to become offended easily. It is accepting weaknesses and shortcomings. It is accepting people as they truly are. It is looking beyond physical appearances to attributes that will not dim through time. It is resisting the impulse to categorize others.”
“Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.”
“Charity is indeed, a great thing, and a gift of God, and when it is rightly ordered likens us unto God himself, as far as that is possible; for it is charity which makes the man.”
“Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.”
“Charity is just writing checks and not being engaged. Philanthropy, to me, is being engaged, not only with your resources but getting people and yourself really involved and doing things that haven't been done before.”
“Charity is like warmth in springtime or summer that causes grass, plants, and trees to grow. Without charity, or spiritual warmth, nothing grows.”
“Charity is love; not all love is charity.”
Source: Theological texts
“Charity is merely returning what we have stolen.”
Source: The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
“Charity is necessary as compassion”
“Charity is never so lovely as when one has lost consciousness that one is practicing charity. 'You mean I helped you? I was enjoying myself. I was just doing my dance. It helped you, that's wonderful. Congratulations to you. No credit to me.”
Source: Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
“Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.”
Source: The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: As Recommended by the General Convention at Philadelphia in 1787. Together with the Journal of the Federal Convention, Luther Martin's Letter, Yates's Minutes, Congressional Opinions, Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of '98-'99, and Other Illustrations of the Constitution
“Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.”
“Charity is no substitute for justice. If we never challenge a social order that allows some to accumulate wealth--even if they decide to help the less fortunate--while others are short-changed, then even acts of kindness end up supporting unjust arrangements. We must never ignore the injustices that make charity necessary, or the inequalities that make it possible.”
“Charity is not a government program.”
“Charity is not a potency of the soul, because if it were it would be natural. Nor is it a passion, because it is not in a sensitive potency in which are all passions. Nor is it a habit, because a habit is removed with difficulty; charity, however, is easily lost through one act of mortal sin. Therefore charity is not something created in the soul.”
“Charity is not an act but a way of life, a condition of the heart.”
“Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera.”