All things Quote by Cotton Mather

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. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.

— Simone Weil

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

— Vincent de Paul

Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.

— Joseph Addison

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

— Jean Baptiste Massillon

Charity is like warmth in springtime or summer that causes grass, plants, and trees to grow. Without charity, or spiritual warmth, nothing grows.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

The essence of charity ... was not deciding what others needed and giving it to them, but giving them what they wanted.

— Jane Smiley

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

— Anonymous

Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed on to mankind. It is the virtue…

— Conrad Hilton

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

Charity is the pure love of Christ. Let's bring it down for us lay folk to understand. Selflessness, patience. . . . a great…

— Hyrum W. Smith

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