“Charity destroys, work builds.”

“What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway!”

Matka Tereza (1910–1997) Roman Catholic saint of Albanian origin

“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.”

Julian of Norwich (1342–1416) English theologian and anchoress

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

Hans Reiser (1963) American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and convicted murderer

“613. An Hour may destroy what an Age was a building.”

Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual

“Unfortunately, it is easier to destroy a country than to re-build it.”

Robert Sarah (1945) Roman Catholic bishop

“You destroy buildings, fight monsters openly in the streets of the city, work with the police, show up in newspapers, advertise in the phone book, and ride zombie dinosaurs down Michigan Avenue, and think that you work in the shadows? Be reasonable.”

Jim Butcher book Skin Game

“Charity should be self-sustainable. That is, it should create more wealth rather than perpetuating the cycle of poverty and dependence. In this sense, the best form of charity would be providing quality education for children and more importantly, building a good character in them.”

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (1956) spiritual leader

“With the works of charity we closed the doors of hell and open ourselves to the sky.”

John Bosco (1815–1888) Italian Roman Catholic priest, educator and writer

“Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.”

John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author