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.

Charity (Daan) means to make another living being happy, whether it is a human being or some animals, giving happiness to them, that is what is called Charity. When you give happiness to everyone, happiness will indeed come to you in its —reaction'. If you give happiness then you immediately receive happiness just sitting at home.

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

Foreign aid: when the poor people of a rich nation send their money to the rich people of a poor nation.

Socially prominent people are very fond of disease, because it gives them a chance to have these really elaborate charity functions, and the newspaper headlines say 'EVENING IN PARIS BALL RAISES MONEY TO FIGHT GOUT' instead of 'RICH PEOPLE AMUSE THEMSELVES'.

You have no idea, sir, how difficult it is to be the victim of benevolence.

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never faileth ...

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.

The poor man's charity is to wish the rich man well.

No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good.

If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life.

He who regards the world as he does the fortune of his own body can govern the world. He who loves the world as he does his own body can be entrusted with the world.

Charity begins at home.

Charity gives itself rich; covetousness hoards itself poor.

With malice toward none; with charity toward all.

Charity is incumbent on each person every day. Charity is assisting anyone, moving and carrying their wares, saying a good word. Every step one takes walking to prayer is charity; showing the way is charity.

They were also very bountiful, especially the ladies. They were always raising money to buy skinny chickens for people who lived in tenements or organizing private schools that often went bankrupt.

Better is he who gives little to charity from money honestly earned, than he who gives much from dishonestly gained wealth.

I don't want you to give me your surplus. I want you to give with personal deprivation.

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.