Thomas Aquinas Charity Quotations

O how unspeakable is this Sacrament which sets our affections ablaze with charity. ... It is the fulfillment of Christ's Mystical Body.

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

Charity is love; not all love is charity.

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

Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues.

Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.

Charity brings to life again those who are spiritually dead.

Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance. So Ambrosius says, and it is also to be found in the Decretum Gratiani: The bread which you withhold belongs to the hungry: the clothing you shut away, to the naked: and the money you bury in the earth is the redemption and freedom of the penniless.