Definition of Charity

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Charity

Love; universal benevolence; good will.

Liberality in judging of men and their actions; a disposition which inclines men to put the best construction on the words and actions of others.

Liberality to the poor and the suffering, to benevolent institutions, or to worthy causes; generosity.

Whatever is bestowed gratuitously on the needy or suffering for their relief; alms; any act of kindness.

A charitable institution, or a gift to create and support such an institution; as, Lady Margaret's charity.

Eleemosynary appointments [grants or devises] including relief of the poor or friendless, education, religious culture, and public institutions.

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Charity Quotations

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, to bind up the nation's wounds.
Abraham Lincoln

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Charity creates a multitude of sins.
Oscar Wilde

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
Edgar Allan Poe

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

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.
Walt Whitman

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
Saint Augustine

If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
Bob Hope

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
Bob Hope

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
John D. Rockefeller

Charity Translations

charity in Afrikaans is naasteliefde
charity in Dutch is naastenliefde, menslievendheid
charity in Italian is amore del prossimo, mantenimento
charity in Latin is sanctimonia
charity in Spanish is caridad

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