Charity Quotes

Seek (beneficial) knowledge, because seeking it for the sake of Allaah is a worship. And knowing it makes you more God-fearing; and searching for it is jihad, teaching it to those who do not know is charity, reviewing and learning it more is like tasbeeh. Through knowledge Allaah will be known and worshiped.

Whatever troubles may be before you, accept them bravely, remembering Whom you are trying to follow. Do not be afraid. Love one another, bear with one another, and let charity guide you all your life. God will reward you as only He can.

Charity is the soul of faith, makes it alive; without love, faith dies.

Everything that is in the heavens, on earth, and under the earth is penetrated with connectedness, penetrated with relatedness.

I see and hear daily that you of the Clergy preach one against another, teach one contrary to another, inveigh one against another without charity or discretion. Some be too stiff in their old mumpsimus, others be too busy and curious in their new sumpsimus. Thus all men almost be in variety and discord.

The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.

No work of charity can be more productive of good to society than the careful instruction of women.

Charity is a cold grey loveless thing. If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.

To heal the breach between the rich and the poor, it is necessary to distinguish between justice and charity.

There is no act of charity that is not accompanied by justice or that permits us to do more than we reasonably can.

A community in which this universal charity reigns, is capable of surmounting all difficulties.

Our charity is to be cordial...something that renews, invigorates and warms. Such should be the effect of our love for each other.

The source of justice is not vengeance but charity.

Even a smile can be charity.

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.

Solidarity is not an act of charity, but mutual aid between forces fighting for the same objective.

Charity should be abolished; and be replaced by justice.

We should never insult others on account of their faults, for it is our duty to show charity and respect to everyone.

The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

How marvellous it would be if, at the end of the day, each of us could say: today I have performed an act of charity towards others!

Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

For, if we have not charity, we are not Christians: charity is the great duty of Christians.

On the last day, when the general examination takes place, there will be no question at all on the text of Aristotle, the aphorisms of Hippocrates, or the paragraphs of Justinian. Charity will be the whole syllabus.

Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.