Charity Quote by Wendell Berry

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 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 is love; not all love is charity.

— Thomas Aquinas

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

“While the word charity connotes a single act of giving, justice speaks to right living, of aligning oneself with the world in a way…

— Rachel Held Evans

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

No one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Charity is the soul of faith, makes it alive; without love, faith dies.

— Anthony of Padua

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

— Vincent de Paul

We may not substitute charity for godliness; but there is room for the Divine love in the heart which has been touched by the…

— William Morley Punshon

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

Sometimes people give to charity because they have been persuaded to believe in a cause, sometimes just to get rid of you and sometimes…

— Sara Pascoe