Almost all the virtues that can be named are enwrapt in one virtue of charity and love:—­for “it suffereth long,” and so it is longanimity; it “is kind,” and so it is courtesy; it “vaunteth not itself,” and so it is modesty; it “is not puffed up,” and so it is humility; it “is not easily provoked,” and so it is lenity; it “thinketh no evil,” and so it is simplicity; it “rejoiceth in the truth,” and so it is verity; it “beareth all things,” and so it is fortitude; it “believeth all things,” and so it is faith; it “hopeth all things,” and so it is confidence; it “endureth all things,” and so it is patience; it “never faileth,” and so it is perseverance.—­CHILLINGWORTH.

As every lord giveth a certain livery to his servants, charity is the very livery of Christ.  Our Saviour, who is the Lord above all lords, would have his servants known by their badge, which is love.—­Latimer.

You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else.  —­Thoreau.

Prayer carries us half way to God, fasting brings us to the door of his palace, and alms-giving procures us admission.—­Koran.

Above all things have fervent charity among yourselves; for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.—­1 Peter 4:8.

It is an old saying, that charity begins at home; but this is no reason it should not go abroad.  A man should live with the world as a citizen of the world; he may have a preference for the particular quarter or square, or even alley, in which he lives, but he should have a generous feeling for the welfare of the whole.—­Cumberland.

Alas for the rarity of Christian charity under the sun!—­Hood.

You cannot separate charity and religion.—­Colton.

Think not you are charitable if the love of Jesus and His brethren be not purely the motive of your gifts.  Alas! you might not give your superfluities, but “bestow all your goods to feed the poor;” you might even “give your body to be burned” for them, and yet be utterly destitute of charity, if self-seeking, self-pleasing or self-ends guide you; and guide you they must, until the love of God be by the Holy Ghost shed abroad in your heart.—­HAWEIS.

Whoever would entitle himself after death, through the merits of his Redeemer, to the noblest of rewards, let him serve God throughout life in this most excellent of all duties, doing good to our brethren.  Whoever is sensible of his offences, let him take this way especially of evidencing his repentance.—­Archbishop Secker.

I have learned from Jesus Christ himself what charity is, and how we ought to practise it; for He says, “By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye love one another.”  Never can I, therefore, please myself in the hope that I may obtain the name of a servant of Christ, if I possess not a true and unfeigned charity within me.  —­St. Basil.