There's always hope. . . even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity.
Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity than any other influence in human affairs.
Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.
Charity is only as warm as those who administer it.
I am in a charity out there to stop violence against women.
In a word: charity cannot be neutral, antiseptic, indifferent, lukewarm or impartial! Charity is infectious, it excites, it risks, and it engages! For true charity is always unmerited, unconditional, and gratuitous!
And I have found that when we Catholics, in the spirit of love and charity, declare our faith boldly and with conviction, we are more likely to find kindred spirits. This is how we must comport ourselves if we are to fulfill our Lord's command in the Gospel of John (17:21), Ut unum sint, that all may be one.
Gloucester, we have done deeds of charity, made peace of enmity, fair love of hate, between these swelling wrong-incensed peers.
Charity is a very labour-intensive virtue.
Heaven would that she these gifts should have, and I to live and die her slave.
Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.
I tend to do golf charity things because it's much safer and you don't get much chance of a broken arm or leg.
He who hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none.
When we die to something, something comes alive within us. If we die to self, charity comes alive; if we die to pride, service comes alive; if we die to lust, reverence for personality comes alive; if we die to anger, love comes alive.
Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.
One might lay down as a postulate: All conceptions of God which are incompatible with a movement of pure charity are false. All other conceptions of him, in varying degree, are true.
As wonderful as charity is, that money runs out. It's not sustainable. It lasts for a certain period of time and it's gone. What i really think people need is the opportunity to help themselves.
Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.
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.
In charity there is no excess.