Charity

Famous quotes containing the word charity:

“Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales. Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the constant omission of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)

“Opening the door of charity can create problems.”
—Chinese proverb.

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