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Charity is love; not all love is charity.

— Thomas Aquinas

“To find a bond between people strong enough to replace the world was the main political task of early Christian philosophy, and it was…

— Hannah Arendt

Charity is the cement which binds Communities to God and persons to one another . . .

— Vincent de Paul

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…

— Aelred of Rievaulx

Charity is the soul of faith, makes it alive; without love, faith dies.

— Anthony of Padua

Charity alone, or love and compassion, is what joins [the Lord and a person] together.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

We may not substitute charity for godliness; but there is room for the Divine love in the heart which has been touched by the…

— William Morley Punshon

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…

— Wendell Berry

Charity is that rational and constant affection which makes us sacrifice ourselves to the human race, as if we were united with it, so…

— Confucius

The fruits of charity are joy, peace, and mercy; charity demands beneficence and fraternal correction; it is benevolence; it fosters reciprocity and remains disinterested…

— Saint Augustine

To love our neighbor in charity is to love God in man.

— Saint Francis de Sales

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