Charity

Famous quotes containing the word charity:

“When a sparrow sips in the river, the water doesn’t recede. Giving charity does not deplete wealth. Saint Kabir says so.”
—Punjabi proverb, trans. by Gurinder Singh Mann.

“How much methinks, I could despise this man,
But that I am bound in charity against it.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“With a smile of Christian charity great Casey’s visage shone;
He stilled the rising tumult, he made the game go on;”
—Ernest Lawrence Thayer (1863–1940)