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Charity: Quotations from Burning Words

Charity - gently to hear, kindly to judge.— SHAKSPEARE,

Charity, like the sun, brightens every object on which it shines. Charity is that rational and constant affection, which makes us sacrifice ourselves to the human race, as if we were united with it, so as to form one individual, partaking equally in its adversity and prosperity.— CONFUCIUS

Why should not our solemn duties, and our hastening end, render us so united, that personal contention would be impossible, in a general sympathy quickened by the breath of a forbearing and pitying charity?— HENRY GILES

If thou neglectest thy love to thy neighbor, in vain thou professest thy love to God; for by thy love to God, the love to thy neighbor is begotten, and by the love to thy neighbor, thy love to God is nourished.— FRANCIS QUARLES

A life in any sphere that is the expression and outflow of an honest, earnest, loving heart, taking counsel only of God and itself, will be certain to be a life of beneficence in the best possible direction.— J. G. HOLLAND

We may not substitute charity for godliness; but there is room for the Divine love in the heart which has been touched by the human.— Wm. M. PUNSHON

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves. -— L. M. CHILD

Earth has not a spectacle more glorious or more fair to show than this- love tolerating intolerance; charity covering, as with a vail, even the sin of the lack of charity.— F. W. ROBERTSON

There is no dearth of charity in the world in giving, but there is comparatively little exercised in thinking and speaking.— SIR PHILIP SIDNEY

I have more confidence in the charity which begins in the home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the worldwide philanthropy which begins at the outside of our horizon to converge into egotism. -— MRS. JAMESON

Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others as by self-examination thoroughly to know our own.— FENELON

- With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right - as God gives us to see the right - let us strive on to finish the work we are in.— ABRAHAM LINCOLN