A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
And now abideth faith, hope and charity, these three, but the greatest of these is charity. [Corinthians]
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up. [New Test.]
As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.
As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.
Charity creates a multitude of sins.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
Charity is the scope of all God's commands.
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.
Charity sees the need, not the cause.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.