“Charity unites us to God. There is nothing mean in charity, nothing arrogant. Charity knows no schism, does not rebel, does all things in concord. In charity all the elect of God have been made perfect.”
- Pope St. Clement I

“Everything I own really belongs to the poor.”
- St. Elizabeth of Hungary

“No act is charitable if it is not just.”
- St. Bruno

“Give something, however small, to the one in need. For it is not small to one who has nothing. Neither is it small to God, if we have given what we could.”
- St. Gregory of Nazianzus

“The poor stretch out the hand, but God receives what is offered.”
- St. Peter Chrysologus