"Charity equals all the other commandments. " ~~ Talmud, Bava Batra
"Do not withhold good where it is due, if it be in your power to bestow it!" ~~ Proverbs (Mishle) 3:27
"What you save from frivolity, add to your charity." ~~ Elijah b. Raphael
"No man was ever beggared by giving charity." ~~ R. Yoel
"Two things will never mix: a good heart and stinginess." ~~ Mivchar Hapeninim
"Had the people of the generation of the Flood and the people of Sodom given charity, they would not have been destroyed." ~~ Midrash Zuta
"Don’t use the chutzpa of a beggar as an excuse for not helping him." ~~ Rabbi Shmelke of Nickelsburg
"Be not slow to visit the sick!" ~~ Ben Sira 7:35
"Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole." ~~ Spinoza
"Deeds of kindness weigh as much as all the commandments." ~~ Talmud Yerushalmi, Peah 1:1
"The reward of a mitzva? Another mitzva!" ~~ Sayings of the Fathers
"One mitzva (good deed) leads to another, just as one averah (sin) leads to another." ~~ Sayings of the Fathers