Inspirational Quotes on Charity

“In giving of thine alms inquire not so much into the person, as his necessity. God looks not so much on the merits of him that requires, as to the manner of him that relieves. If the man deserve not, thou hast given to humanity.”

“Proportion thy charity to the strength of thine estate, lest God in anger proportion thine estate to the weakness of thy charity.”

“When we first arrived and saw the overwhelming destruction, many people asked where you even begin to respond? It starts with helping just one person, one family at a time, and doing what we can to give people relief and a sense of hope.”

“Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.”

“Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.”

“Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.”

“Give me the Charity which delights not in exposing the weakness of others, but "covereth all things."”

“The words which all of us shall one Day hear sound not of theology but of life, not of churches and saints, but of the hungry and the poor, not of creeds and doctrines, but of shelter and clothing, not of Bibles and prayer-books, but of cups of cold water in the name of Christ.”

“Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.”

“God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.”

“Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity.”

“Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.”

“On the essentials, unity. On the nonessentials, liberty. In everything, charity.”

“He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.”

“There cannot be a surer rule, nor a stronger exhortation to the observance of it, than when we are taught that all the endowments which we possess are divine deposits entrusted to us for the very purpose of being distributed for the good of our neighbour.”

“The rich man is not one who is in possession of much, but one who gives much.”

“Charity is, indeed, a great thing, and a gift of God, and when it is rightly ordered likens us to God Himself, as far as that is possible; for it is charity which makes the man.”

“Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they possess, and should show their wealth to be more in doing good than merely in having it. They should not reserve their benevolence for purposes after they are dead, for those who give not of their property till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer.”

“Christianity teacheth me that what I charitably give alive, I carry with me dead; and experience teacheth me that what I leave behind, I lose. I will carry that treasure with me by giving it, which the worldling loseth by keeping it; so, while his corpse shall carry nothing but a winding cloth to his grave, I shall be richer under the earth than I was above it.”

“God's greatest blessings are upon those who show the proper respect for the poor and the needy.”