C Quotes
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“Charity is one of those remarkable words that helps to identify the fault lines of a culture.”
Source: Sweet Charity?: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement
“Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice.”
“Charity is only as warm as those who administer it.”
“Charity is reaching into one's own pockets to assist his fellow man in need. Reaching into someone else's pocket to assist one's fellow man hardly qualifies as charity. When done privately, we deem it theft, and the individual risks jail time.”
Source: Liberty Versus the Tyranny of Socialism: Controversial Essays
“Charity is suppose to cover up for a multitude of sins.”
“Charity is taking an ugly girl to lunch.”
“Charity is that rational and constant affection which makes us sacrifice ourselves to the human race, as if we were united with it, so as to form one individual, partaking equally in its adversity and prosperity.”
“Charity is that sweet-smelling savor of Jesus Christ, which vanishes and is extinguished from the moment that it is exposed.”
Source: Sermons of John-Baptist Massillon, Bishop of Clermon, to which is prefixed the life of the author, from the last London edition
“Charity is that with which no man is lost, and without which no man is saved.”
“Charity is the best form of prayer. Do whatever little you can to help the not so fortunate. You may donate a small portion of your income, you may take out time to teach the underprivileged children, sponsor a meal for the hungry or just spend some time with an old lady who has no one. I am sure that you will move one level high on the spiritual plane. Like prayers, doing charity once is not enough. You have to do it continuously, as much as possible.”
“Charity is the cement that unites communities to God and individuals to each other
so that he who contributes to the union of hearts in a community
binds it indissolubly to God.”
“Charity is the cement which binds Communities to God and persons to one another . . .”
Source: Correspondence Conference Documents
“Charity is the drowning of justice in the craphole of mercy.”
“Charity is the entrance to the garden.”
Source: Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern
“Charity is the filthiest invention of the human mind: first you steal what belongs to everyone; then you use the law and various other means to protect it.
You give charity to prevent the have-nots from rebelling against you. It also makes you feel less guilty. All do-gooders feel 'high' when they do good.”
“Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues.”
“Charity is the hallmark of a christ-like character.”
“Charity is the note that resolves the discord.”
“Charity is the only lubricant that keeps the axle of the world creaking.”
“Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.”
Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison
“Charity is the pure love of Christ. Let's bring it down for us lay folk to understand. Selflessness, patience. . . . a great definition. . . Charity: The ability to love the sinner and hate the sin.”
“Charity is the pure love of Christ. Let's bring it down for us lay folk to understand. Selflessness, patience. . . . a great definition. . . Charity: The ability to love the sinner and hate the sin. Note: For Hyrum Smith's other ideas which he regards as pertinent to Success, see Topics: Character, Charity, Goals, Humility, Peace of Mind, Sacrifice, Success-Change-Personal Growth, Success-Change-Constructive Imagination, Wisdom”
“Charity is the root of all good works.”
Source: Sermons 148-183 on the New Testament
“Charity is the soul of faith, makes it alive; without love, faith dies.”
“Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.”
“Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.”
“Charity is to unburden you from your guilt, so you say, `I am doing something: I going to open a hospital, going to open a college. I give money to this charity fund, to that trust....` You feel a little happier. The world has lived in poverty, the world has lived in scarcity, ninety-nine percent of people have lived a poor life, almost starving and dying, and only one percent of people have lived with richness, with money - they have always felt guilty. To help them, the religions developed the idea of charity. It is to rid them of their guilt.”
“Charity is to will and do what is just and right in every transaction.”
Source: Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell: From Things Heard and Seen
“Charity is today a 'political charity.'. . . it means the transformation of a society structured to benefit a few who appropriate to themselves the value of the work of others. This transformation ought to be directed toward a radical change in the foundation of society, that is, the private ownership of the means of production.”
Source: A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation
“Charity is unconscious of itself, there is no accumulation first and then distribution. It is like the flower - natural, open, spontaneous.”
Source: The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti 1934-1935: What Is Right Action
“Charity is willingly given from the heart.”
“Charity is without fear: having given all that it has, it has nothing left to lose.”
Source: No Man Is an Island
“Charity isn't a good substitute for justice.”
“Charity isn't about pity, it is about love.”
Source: A Simple Path-Open Market
“Charity itself consists in acting justly and faithfully in whatever office, business and employment a person is engaged in.”
Source: The True Christian Religion: Containing the Universal Theology of the New Church, Foretold by the Lord in Daniel, VII, 13, 14, and in the Apocalypse, XXI. 1,2. Translated from the Latin
“Charity itself fulfills the law. And who can sever love from charity?”
Source: Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“Charity keepeth us in Faith and Hope, and Hope leadeth us in Charity. And in the end all shall be Charity.”
Source: Revelations of divine love
“Charity knew she had to begin looking for a job soon. Definitely tomorrow, or the next day. Or perhaps the day after that. Charity didn't believe in procrastination. She just needed to plan her strategy. She was sound asleep on the sofa when Lady Margaret got back from London.”
“Charity liked brandy. She liked the way it burned her throat while soothing the ache in her heart.”
Source: Mr. Wrong
“Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man's entire relation to God and to his neighbor.”
“Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues.”
Source: The progress of a biographer
“Charity means love towards the neighbor and compassion, for anyone who loves his neighbor as himself also has as much compassion for him in his suffering as he does for himself in his own.”
“Charity must become a fundamental state of mind and heart that guides us in all we do.”
“Charity never faileth.”
Source: Complete Works
“Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.”
“Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor.”
Source: Banker To The Poor
“Charity opens the heart.”
Source: Selections from Swami Vivekananda
“Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.”
“Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.”
“Charity requires sacrifice, and members of Congress could set a good example of charity by giving up their pay increase.”