charity, n.Definitions

Charity is as potent for atonement as the altar.

Charity is a kind of giving which never impoverishes the giver.

Charity is a magnet with more power to attract the divine influence than any other precept.

Charity is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for poverty as capital punishment is a cure for crime.

Charity is a question on which all men and women of good will can act instead of arguing in circles.

Charity is a life-sustaining act that allows us to imitate God, the animator of the living.

Charity is, along with gratitude, a word that should be wiped from our vocabulary, because in real life, help is given out of friendship, or it is not valued... it is received from the hand of friendship, or it is resented.

Charity is a wise and prudent principle, even if out of self-interest as a great safeguard to its possessor. For while man commits murder for the sake of jealousy, anger, hatred, and selfishness, no one ever murders for charity's sake.