CHARITY

Related Subjects: Beggar, Benevolence, Gifts, Help, Kindness, Philanthrop, Poverty, Relief

1. Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.—JANE ADDAMS, Twenty Years at Hull House
   

2. Blessed is he that considereth the poor.—Bible, Psalms 41:1
   

3. He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack.—Bible, Proverbs 28:27
   

4. Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them.—Bible, Matthew 6:1
   

5. When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.—Bible, Matthew 6:3
   

6. Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.—Bible, Matthew 25:40
   

7. Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.—Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:1
   

8. Though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.—Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:2
   

9. Charity suffereth long and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.—Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:4
   

10. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three ; but the greatest of these is charity.—Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:13
    

11. Charity shall cover the multitude of sins.Bible, 1 Peter 4:8
    

12. That worldly principle,
    Charity begins at home.—SIR THOMAS BROWNE, Religio Medici
    

13. Alas for the rarity
    Of Christian charity
    Under the sun!—THOMAS HOOD, The Bridge of Sighs
    

14. Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellowman, either by a considerable gift, or a sum of money, or by teaching him a trade, or by putting him in the way of business, so that he may earn an honest livelihood, and not be forced to the dreadful alternative of holding out his hand for charity. This is the highest step and the summit of charity's golden ladder.—MAIMONIDES, Charity's Eight Degrees
    

15. They take a paper and they read the headlines,
    So they've heard of unemployment
    and they've heard of breadlines,
    And they philanthropically cure them all
    By getting up a costume charity ball.—OGDEN NASH, Pride Goeth Before a Raise
    

16. The organized charity, scrimped and iced,
    In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ.—J. B. O'REILLY, In Bohemia
    

17. In faith and hope the world will disagree,
    But all mankind's concern is charity.—POPE, Essay on Man

18. Whatever is given to the poor, is laid out of the reach of fortune.—Proverb
    

19. The charitable give out at the door and God puts in at the window.—Proverb
    

20. A charitable man is the true lover of God.—Proverb
    

21. Charity and pride have different aims, yet both feed the poor.—Proverb
    

22. Charity begins at home, but should not end there.—Proverb
    

23. Charity excuseth not cheating.—Proverb
    

24. He that has no charity merits no mercy.—Proverb
    

25. He that feeds upon charity has a cold dinner and no supper.—Proverb
    

26. Charity is the scope of all God's commands.—Proverb
    

27. You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and two-pence.—SYDNEY SMITH, Lady Holland's Memoir
    

28. He was always found
    Among your ten and twenty pound subscribers,
    Your benefactors in the newspapers.
    His alms were money put to interest
    In the other world.—SOUTHEY, The Alderman's Funeral
    

29. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.—SPINOZA, Ethics
    

30. If a body's ever took charity, it makes a burn that don't come out.—JOHN STEINBECK, The Grapes of Wrath
    

31. I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.—SWIFT, Polite Conversation
    

32. The noblest charity is to pre­vent a man from accepting charity; and the best alms are to show and to enable a man to dispense with alms.—The Talmud
    

33. Melt not in an acid sect
    The Christian pearl of charity.—WHITTIER, Snow-Bound