"Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship."

"It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin."

"So give to the poor; I'm begging you, I'm warning you, I'm commanding you, I'm ordering you."

"If you see charity, you see the Trinity."

"Certainly it is a heaven upon earth to have a man's mind to move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the po…"

"In charity there is no excess."

"Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began."

""But whom do I treat unjustly," you say, "by keeping what is my own?" Tell me, what is your own? What did you bring i…"

"Who are the greedy? Those who are not satisfied with what suffices for their own needs. Who are the robbers? Those wh…"

"No amount of money given in charity, nothing but the abandonment of this hateful trade, can atone for this great sin …"