Charity Quote by Reinhold Niebuhr

Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.

— Edward Abbey

Charity is great, but the moment you say it is all, you run the risk of running into materialism.

— Swami Vivekananda

For those who are not hungry, it is easy to palaver about the degradation of charity.

— Charlotte Bronte

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

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Mark, therefore, the ordinary theory of practical religion, what it leads to. Charity is great, but the moment you say it is all, you…

— Swami Vivekananda

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Strangely, charity sometimes gets dismissed, as if it is ineffective, inappropriate or even somehow demeaning to the recipient. 'This isn't charity,' some donors take…

— Ban Ki-moon

Charity is having patience with someone who has let us down. It is resisting the impulse to become offended easily. It is accepting weaknesses…

— Thomas S. Monson

Though we may sometimes unintentionally bestow our beneficence on the unworthy, it does not take from the merit of the act. For charity doth…

— Henry Fielding

Charity is a very labour-intensive virtue.

— Garth Nix

Is it not when the fall is the lowest that charity ought to be the greatest?

— Victor Hugo

Charity that does not change the situation of the poor isn't enough.

— Pope Francis