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is a kind of giving which never impoverishes the giver.

Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity. Maimonides

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

The giving of charity, which brings sustenance to a needy individual, is a life-sustaining act one that effectively allows us to imitate G-d, 'the animator of the living,' and provides each person with the noblest direction in life to 'walk in His ways.' Rebbe Menachem Schneerson

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

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

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

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

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.

Aside from higher considerations, charity often operates as a vastly wise and prudent principle-a great safeguard to its possessor. Men have committed murder for jealousy's sake, and anger's sake, and hatred's sake, and selfishness' sake, and spiritual pride's sake... but no man that ever I heard of, ever committed a diabolical murder for sweet charity's sake. Mere self-interest, then, if no better motive can be enlisted, should, especially with high-tempered men, prompt all beings to charity and philanthropy. Herman Melville

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.

We should wipe two words from our vocabulary: gratitude and charity. 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. Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. Henry Ford

Charity is as potent for atonement as the altar. Johanan b. Zakkai

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