Alive Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

— John D. Rockefeller

Giving what one does not possess is always a sign of charity.

— Vikrant Parsai

Charity brings to life again those who are spiritually dead.

— Thomas Aquinas

The living need charity more than the dead.

— George Arnold

It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin.

— Thomas Aquinas

Charity is that with which no man is lost, and without which no man is saved.

— Anonymous

“Charity is detrimental unless it helps the recipient become independent of it.”

— David Thorne

It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end. This is the only permissible form of…

— Tadeusz Borowski

If charity cost nothing, the world would be full of philanthropists.

— Jewish Proverb

Charity is that sweet-smelling savor of Jesus Christ, which vanishes and is extinguished from the moment that it is exposed.

— Jean Baptiste Massillon

The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Charity is unconscious of itself, there is no accumulation first and then distribution. It is like the flower - natural, open, spontaneous.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti