994 Quotes About Charity

...one of the main lessons is that people should not be separated into classes of the clean and the unclean, the worthy and the unworthy, the respectable and the unrespectable. … (missing) the point of their union with the Father, whose love is undiscriminating and inclusive, not gradated and excessive.

A person’s spiritual power originates from using knowledge, compassion, charity, and personal humility to break away from custom and creed.

I've learned that generosity is far easier than justice and that, in the highly distorted markets of the poor, it is all too easy to veer only toward the charitable, to have low--or no--expectations for low-income people. This does nothing but reaffirm prejudices on all sides.

Charity is appeased when some rich person gives money to the poor while justice asks why one person can be that rich when so many are poor.

The more you put your arm around those that you might naturally look down on, the more you will love yourself. And the more you love yourself, the less need you’ll ever have to find fault or be better than others. And the less we all find fault or have a need to be better than others, the quicker this world becomes a far better place to live.

It is not good to hoard money and it isequally unsanitary to hoard knowledge; themore you hoard the less you think and thelesser you know. - On Greed and Knowledge

Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need, though it be your example which leaves them far behind. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do not merely abandon it to them.

There are two things you should know about the poor: they tend to smell, and they are ungrateful.

If you have two shirts in your closet, one belongs to you and the other to the man with no shirt.