Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Charity

• It is true that there is a thing crudely called charity, which means charity to the deserving poor; but charity to the deserving is not charity at all, but justice. It is the undeserving who require it, and the ideal either does not exist at all, or exists wholly for them.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mean, Justice, Charity

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (1909). “Heretics”

• Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Freedom, Inspirational Life, Responsibility

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

• He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Charity, Pelicans, Admire

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.264, Simon and Schuster

• Stated baldly, charity certainly means one of two things–pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mean, Two, People

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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