Quote by G. K. Chesterton Download Open image ““People who lose all their charity generally lose all their logic.”” — G. K. Chesterton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“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 Copy Share Image
People that trust wholly to other's charity, and without industry of their own, will always be poor. — William Temple Copy Share Image
“No. Charity, like Socialism, is an invention of the weak to exploit the strong and bring them to their knees." — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Charity is certainly greater than any rule. Moreover, all rules must lead to charity.” — St. Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
“Our failures in charity are chained to a narrowed vision of the world that makes too much of the differences between us, and this… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.” — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
True charity consists in putting up with all one's neighbors fault's; never being surprised by his weakness, and being inspired by the least of… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
“Charity is detrimental unless it helps the recipient become independent of it.” — David Thorne Copy Share Image
“It's just because I have picked a little about mystics that I have no use for mystagogues. Real mystics don't hide mysteries, they reveal… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The history of the thing might amuse you," he said. "When first I became one of the New Anarchists I tried all kinds of… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered." - On Running After Ones Hat, All Things Considered, 1908” — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction where it was never meant to be. A… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I mean,' he said with increasing vehemence, 'that if there be a house for me in heaven it will either have a green lamp-post… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“But how will you bear an absentminded man who, if he happens to see you, will kill you? That is what tries the nerves,… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The world will never be safe for democracy—it is a dangerous trade” — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I was suddenly possessed with the idea that the blind, blank back of his head really was his face—an awful, eyeless face staring at… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“But the reason we fly from the city is not in reality that it is not poetical; it is that its poetry is too… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image