Quotations on charity

Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven.
-Henry Ward Beecher
As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
-Victor Hugo
If you give money, spend yourself with it.
-Henry David Thoreau
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.
-Samuel Johnson
The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others, lives unblest.
-Henry Home
Charity sees the need, not the cause.
-German Proverb
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
-Erich Fromm
The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable.
-J. S. Buckminster
What we frankly give, forever is our own.
-George Granville
It is more blessed to give than to receive.
-Acts, 20:35
Prayer carries us half way to God, fasting brings us to the door of His palace, and alms-giving procures us admission.
-The Koran
If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
-Bob Hope
Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.
-Elbert Hubbard
Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
-I Corinthians 13:1-3
They take the 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
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work we are in.
-Abraham Lincoln
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
-George Eliot
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.
-Jack London
Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson