God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.
– Billy Graham
Charity
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
– Augustine
Love | Charity | Helping
We cannot all go to the foreign field. We must express our interest in those who have not had our opportunities by our gifts. Much of the service we render in our own land must be rendered in the same way. But when that is said, the fact still remains that there is nothing that will take the place of our hand-to-hand dealing with those who need us. We cannot perform all our charities by proxy. We must come in personal contact with those whom we would help.
– Clovis G. Chappell
Missions | Charity
When we first arrived and saw the overwhelming destruction, many people asked where you even begin to respond? It starts with helping just one person, one family at a time, and doing what we can to give people relief and a sense of hope.
– Franklin Graham
Charity
God has chosen us to help one another.
– Smith Wigglesworth
Service | Charity | Helping
We are not cisterns made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.
– Billy Graham
Charity | Finances
Nothing is more pleasing to God than an open hand, and a closed mouth.
– Francis Quarles
Charity | Humility
On the essentials, unity. On the nonessentials, liberty. In everything, charity.
– Jack Hyles
Unity | Liberty | Charity
In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.
– Richard Baxter
Charity | Doubt | Unity
Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive.
– A. B. Simpson
Charity
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
– Augustine
Charity | Stewardship
In giving of thine alms inquire not so much into the person, as his necessity. God looks not so much on the merits of him that requires, as to the manner of him that relieves. If the man deserve not, thou hast given to humanity.
– Francis Quarles
Charity
There is no such merchant as the charitable man; he gives trifles which he could not keep, to receive treasure which he cannot lose.
– Francis Quarles
Charity
Let each of us learn to abide in Christ with the heart open to Him on the one hand, and open to men, women and children on the other.
– F.B. Meyer
Charity | The Heart
Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Finances | Charity
The place of charity, like that of God, is everywhere.
– Alexandre Vinet
Charity
As a fresh start, the church should give away all her endowments to the poor and needy.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Charity
Since much wealth too often proves a snare and an encumbrance in the Christian’s race, let him lighten the weight by ‘dispersing abroad and giving to the poor’; whereby he will both soften the pilgrimage of his fellow travelers, and speed his own way the faster.
– Assorted Authors
Charity | Wealth
He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.
– John Bunyan
Charity
Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.
– G.K. Chesterton
Charity
Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
– Thomas Fuller
Family | Charity | Home
The words which all of us shall one Day hear sound not of theology but of life, not of churches and saints, but of the hungry and the poor, not of creeds and doctrines, but of shelter and clothing, not of Bibles and prayer-books, but of cups of cold water in the name of Christ.
– Henry Drummond
Charity
God’s greatest blessings are upon those who show the proper respect for the poor and the needy.
– Lester Roloff
Charity
The riches we impart are the only wealth we shall always retain.
– Matthew Henry
Charity | Wealth
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
Charity | Money
There cannot be a surer rule, nor a stronger exhortation to the observance of it, than when we are taught that all the endowments which we possess are divine deposits entrusted to us for the very purpose of being distributed for the good of our neighbor.
– John Calvin
Charity
Give me the Charity which delights not in exposing the weakness of others, but “covereth all things.”
– Henry Drummond
Charity
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
– Augustine
Charity
Christianity teacheth me that what I charitably give alive, I carry with me dead; and experience teacheth me that what I leave behind, I lose. I will carry that treasure with me by giving it, which the worldling loseth by keeping it; so, while his corpse shall carry nothing but a winding cloth to his grave, I shall be richer under the earth than I was above it.
– Joseph Hall
Charity | Worldliness
Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, who opens it hath it twice told.
– George Herbert
Charity
Feel for others – in your pocket.
– Charles Spurgeon
Charity
God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men’s weaknesses.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Charity | Weakness
If our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements, etc., is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving away too little. If our charities do not at all pinch or hamper us, I should say they are too small. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot because our charitable expenditure excludes them.
– C.S. Lewis
Charity
Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Prosperity | Charity
Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Charity
He is truly great who hath a great charity.
– Thomas a Kempis
Charity
The clothes we wear are what people see. Only God can look on the heart. The outward signs are important. They reveal something of what is inside. If charity is there, it will become visible outwardly, but if you have no charitable feelings, you can still obey the command. Put it on as simply and consciously as you put on a coat. You choose it; you pick it up; you put it on. This is what you want to wear.
– Elisabeth Elliot
Charity | Feelings
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Charity
Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.
– George Washington
Affliction | Charity | The Heart
Christian life consists in faith and charity.
– Martin Luther
Faith | Charity
We ought to be people of compassion. And being people of compassion means we deny ourselves, and our self centeredness.
– Mike Huckabee
Charity
It is the glory of the true religion that it inculcates and inspires a spirit of benevolence. It is a religion of charity, which none other ever was. Christ went about doing good; he set the example to his disciples, and they abounded in it.
– Thomas Fuller
Charity
Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
– Hosea Ballou
Charity | Zeal
Let the lips of the poor be the trumpet of thy gift, lest in seeking applause, thou lose thy reward.
– Francis Quarles
Charity | Rewards
Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they possess, and should show their wealth to be more in doing good than merely in having it. They should not reserve their benevolence for purposes after they are dead, for those who give not of their property till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer.
– Joseph Hall
Charity | Wealth
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Charity
He that gives all, though but little gives much; because God looks not to the quantity of the gift, but to the quality of the givers.
– Francis Quarles
Charity
There will come a time when three words, uttered with charity and meekness, shall receive a far more blessed reward than three thousand volumes written with disdainful sharpness of wit.
– Assorted Authors
Charity | Rewards | Meekness
Proportion thy charity to the strength of thine estate, lest God in anger proportion thine estate to the weakness of thy charity.
– Francis Quarles
Charity | Selfishness | Weakness
Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unrepressed on earth.
– Charles Kingsley
Charity | Romance