Charity Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

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 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 means love towards the neighbor and compassion, for anyone who loves his neighbor as himself also has as much compassion for him in…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

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

charity is a calm, severe duty; it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever be considered…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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

— Jean Baptiste Massillon

What is meant by charity? Charity is not fundamental. It is really helping on the misery of the world, not eradicating it. One looks…

— Swami Vivekananda

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

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

— Anonymous

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

— Vincent de Paul

“Charity means pardoning what is unpardonable, or it is no virtue at all. Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no…

— G.K. Chesterton

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

— Emanuel Swedenborg