Charity Quote by Emanuel Swedenborg

True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense

— Emanuel Swedenborg

True charity is liable to excesses and transports.

— Jean Baptiste Massillon

True charity ought to begin in marriage, for it is a relationship that must be rebuilt every day.

— James E. Faust

“We will do better in life if we desire to be useful rather than rich and famous.”

— Joyce Meyer

... in the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its…

— Madame de Stael

I have come to the conclusion that charity is only charity when you give goods, services or money without personal gain, benefit or recognition…

— Jim Pinto

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 true charity is not giving bread or money, but providing employment.

— Ilkin Santak

True charity consists in doing good to those who do us evil, and in thus winning them over.

— Alphonsus Liguori

“I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbours' defects--not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues.”

— Anonymous

In a word: charity cannot be neutral, antiseptic, indifferent, lukewarm or impartial! Charity is infectious, it excites, it risks and it engages! For true…

— Pope Francis

True charity occurs only when there are no notions of giving, giver, or gift.

— Gautama Buddha