Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.

Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in read more

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service

He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.

He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.

As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was read more

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.

Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, read more

Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.