Top 56 Christian Charity Quotes
#1. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.
Edmund Burke
#2. You try to draw everything into the net of your faith, father, but you can't steal all the virtues. Gentleness isn't Christian, self-sacrifice isn't Christian, charity isn't, remorse isn't. I expect the cavemen wept to see another's tears.
Graham Greene
#3. My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.
Rita Mae Brown
#4. Alas for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun!
Thomas Hood
#5. To excuse what can really produce good excuses is not Christian charity; it is only fairness. To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable in you.
C.S. Lewis
#6. I think there is an immense shortage of Christian charity among so-called Christians.
Harry S. Truman
#7. And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he'd take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
Moliere
#8. As we know, Christian charity has always been able to make allowances for a lot of good honest hatred, ...
W. Somerset Maugham
#9. It seems to me to be the best proof of an evangelical disposition, that persons are not angry when reproached, and have a Christian charity for those that ill deserve it.
Desiderius Erasmus
#10. Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#11. I believe in Christian charity, but I don't believe in Christian tolerance ... When we become so tolerate that we lead people into mental fog and spiritual darkness, we are not acting like Christians; we are acting like cowards!
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#12. When you find me attempting to break into your house to take your plate, under any pretence whatsoever, but most of all under pretence of purity of religion and Christian charity shoot me for a robber and a hypocrite, as in that case I shall certainly be.
Edmund Burke
#13. Usury was seen above all as an assault on Christian charity, on Jesus's injunction to treat the poor as they would treat the Christ himself, giving without expectation of return and allowing the borrower to decide on recompense (Luke 6:34
David Graeber
#14. Christian charity, the compassion of centuries of civilization, fell from her like useless ornaments, revealing her bare, arid soul. She needed to feed and protect her children. Nothing else mattered any more.
Irene Nemirovsky
#15. 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.
Mother Teresa
#16. Get evangelical Christian made them receptive to the possibility of redemption in the here and now.
George F. Will
#17. I think Christians should be leaders in art, science, philanthropy, charity, and all kinds of good works. We should be good examples for everyone. Unfortunately though, that's not often the case.
Matt Smith
#18. It is with charity as with money
the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#19. Loving one another with the charity of Christ, let the love you have in your hearts be shown outwardly in your deeds so that compelled by such an example, the sisters may also grow in the love of God and charity for one another.
Clare Of Assisi
#20. He is a Christian, and believes charity begins at home. And often it remains there.
Paul Kearney
#21. Christians and non-Christian voters alike have become far too comfortable slinging rocks at the expense of making any real political or social progress.
Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick
#23. All Christian worship is a witness of the resurrection of Him who liveth for ever and ever. Because He lives, "now abideth faith, hope, charity."
Lyman Abbott
#24. We have replaced the religious passions with Christian social virtues, and to talk of Man's triumph in terms of mercy, charity, or compassion is as senseless as expecting to find a Christ standing his turn of beers in a Paddington public house.
Bill Hopkins
#25. If the Gospel and the Apostles may be credited, no man can be a Christian without charity, and without that faith which works, not by force, but by love.
John Locke
#26. For if we are bidden to honor carnal fathers and mothers, how much more the spiritual? ... If this virtue of charity has been overlooked, a man will lose any fruit of salvation in any good he may do.
Pope Gregory VII
#27. I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.
E. O. Wilson
#28. The union of a sect within itself is a pitiful charity; it's no concord of Christians, but a conspiracy against Christ; and they that love one another for their opinionative concurrence, love for their own sakes, not their Lord's.
Joseph Glanvill
#29. Silence is the language of faith. Action--be it church or charity, politics or poetry--is the translation.
Christian Wiman
#30. For, if we have not charity, we are not Christians: charity is the great duty of Christians.
George Whitefield
#31. Only by having a sense of history's trajectory (even if one does not believe in Parousia) can one love earthly reality and believe - with charity - that there is still room for Hope.
Umberto Eco
#32. First the lover must learn charity and keep God's law. Then he shall be blessed a hundredfold, and he shall do great things without great effort, and bear all pain without suffering. And so his life will surpass human reason indeed.
Hadewijch
#33. The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
Alan Paton
#34. If he had given away anything else, he would have been charged with indecent exposure.
Edmund Campion
#35. May we not say, that true zeal is not mostly charitable, but wholly so? That is, if we take charity in St. Paul's sense, for love; the love of God and our neighbour. For it is a certain truth, (although little understood in the world), that Christian zeal is all love. It is nothing else.
John Wesley
#37. You always enter God's hospital as a charity patient. You can't pay your way.
Vance Havner
#38. Well, one of the most important things for Americans to be reminded of is that a lot of the exceptional nature of our country is founded in Judeo-Christian values that promotes individualism, personal responsibility, a strong work ethic, and a commitment to family, charity.
Jim DeMint
#39. A woman's love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#40. Michael Jackson's charity efforts? Mmm. I'm sure they have nothing to do with his molestation charges.
Christian Finnegan
#41. Our concern for victims is the secular mask of Christian love.
Rene Girard
#42. In today's Republican Party, there's a term for people who hate charity and love killing: 'Christian.'
Bill Maher
#43. He that rightly understands the reasonableness and Excellency of charity will know that it can never be excusable to waste any of our money in pride and folly.
William Law
#44. Somebody goes to a soup kitchen and serves the hungry, someone goes to a prison and tries to get people to turn their lives around - those are all Christian charities. This is just another charity the way I look at it. I don't look at it as being special or different.
Ralph Sarchie
#45. When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man when he gets all he can and saves all he can, does not give all he can, I have more hope for Judas Iscariot than for that man!
John Wesley
#46. Tolerance is not a Christian value. Charity, justice, mercy, prudence, honesty
these are Christian values.
Charles J. Chaput
#47. The Lord receive my soul, and have mercy on me, and bless this kingdom with peace and charity, that there may not be this effusion of Christian blood amongst them.
William Laud
#48. Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.
Saint Augustine
#49. You cannot pray at home, like you can at church, where there is a great multitude; where exclamations are cried out to God as from one great heart, and where there is something more: the unions of minds, the accord of souls, the bond of charity, the prayers of priests.
Saint John Chrysostom
#51. I hold that Christian grace abounds Where charity is seen; that when We climb to heaven, 'tis on the rounds Of love to men.
Alice Cary
#52. It is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity toward each other.
James Madison
#53. Charity is indeed, a great thing, and a gift of God, and when it is rightly ordered likens us unto God himself, as far as that is possible; for it is charity which makes the man.
Saint John Chrysostom
#54. Prayer, humility, and charity toward all are essential in the Christian life: they are the way to holiness.
Pope Francis
#55. My girlfriend's dad runs the Prostate Centre on Wimpole St. in London, and he's chairman of Prostate U.K., which I think is the second-largest prostate cancer charity in Britain.
Christian Cooke
#56. Love for our neighbours does not die the minute we enter heaven, it intensifies.
E.A. Bucchianeri
