Charity begins at home, but should not end there

True charity never envies others when they prosper, nor rejoices in the calamities of others when they are in trouble.

It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin.

Even as in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in hell there will be the most perfect hate

It is significant that it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism.

Charity brings to life again those who are spiritually dead

Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

The population of London is one-seventh of the total population of the United Kingdom, and in London, year in and year out, one adult in every four dies on public charity, either in the workhouse, the hospital, or the asylum. When the fact that the well-to-do do not end thus is taken into consideration’, it becomes manifest that it is the fate of at least one in every three adult workers to die on public charity.

Even as in the blessed in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in the damned there will be the most perfect hate. Wherefore as the saints will rejoice in all goods, so will the damned grieve for all goods. Consequently the sight of the happiness of the saints will give them very great pain

Charity is love; not all love is charity

Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues

Whatsoever is done in charity, however small and of no reputation it be, bringeth forth good fruit

He is truly great that is great in charity. He is truly great that is little in himself, and maketh no account of any height of honor. And he is truly learned that doeth the will of God, and forsaketh his own will

He is truly great who hath a great charity

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

When Charity is deeply rooted in the soul it shows itself exteriorly: there is so gracious a way of refusing what we cannot give, that the refusal pleases as much as the gift

By our little acts of charity practiced in the shade we convert souls far away, we help missionaries, we win for them abundant alms; and by that means build actual dwellings spiritual and material for our Eucharistic Lord

True charity consists in putting up with all one’s neighbors fault’s; never being surprised by his weakness, and being inspired by the least of his virtues

It is by desiring to grow in love that we receive the Holy Spirit, and the thirst for more charity is the effect of this more abundant reception

Charity is without fear: having given all that it has, it has nothing left to lose

There is a duty to improve the lot of others. Charity isn’t personal, it’s public. It’s owed not just to God and salvation but to the nation: the idea that America itself deserves its citizens’ charity, not because it is poor but because it could always be richer.

The character of a people may be ruined by charity.

Peace, like charity, begins at home

While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.

My father worked for a children’s home called Dr. Barnardo’s Homes. They’re a charity.

Love is not patronizing and charity isn’t about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same — with charity you give love, so don’t just give money but reach out your hand instead.

Peace, justice, humanity, charity—these cannot be legislated into being. They are the result of divine grace.

Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

The emancipation of women is not an act of charity, it’s a basic necessity for the revolution to triumph.

Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at the expense of the industrial and working class.

I went to a pizzeria, I ordered a slice of pizza, the fucker gave me the smallest slice possible. If the pizza was a pie chart for what people would do if they found a million dollars, the fucker gave me the “donate it to charity” slice. I would like to exchange this for the “keep it!