“Charity is the root of all good works.”

“While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.”

“Charity is system-affirming. It does nothing about the root causes of poverty, criminalization, and racism. It just treats a few of the symptoms selectively. Social justice work is about making it so that no one is poor, homeless, targeted by police, deportable, or exploited.”

“Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.”

“I had three manners of understanding of this light, Charity. The first is Charity unmade; the second is Charity made; the third is Charity given. Charity unmade is God; Charity made is our soul in God; Charity given is virtue. And that is a precious gift of working in which we love God, for Himself; and ourselves, in God; and that which God loveth, for God.”

“Charity keepeth us in Faith and Hope, and Hope leadeth us in Charity. And in the end all shall be Charity.”

“Inside ourselves there lies the root of good:
the heart outweighs all talents on this earth.”

“Doing GPL work is doing charity work in our current legal and economic framework.”

“Much of good science — and perhaps all of great science — has its roots in fantasy.”

“Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.”