An institution or organization or a fund established to help the needy. Benevolence or generosity toward others or toward humanity. Indulgence or forbearance in judging others. These are the words for charity. If we go by the dictionary for charity we can take it very simply.
Charity is also an institution or an organisation or fund established to help the needy.
But, the other definitions which are often overlooked, far too often overlooked, are that charity is benevolence or generosity towards others towards humanity as a whole and the fifth definition of charity which was inculcated in me very strongly during my degrees, was that charity is indulgence or forbearance in judging others. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profited me nothing. The newspapers, the television, we all tend to look at his fall and before we know it we are talking about his lack of preparation, ignoring his zeal to succeed. Before we know it, the press and other news organisations will go yet one stage further and start talking about that sprinter's personality, instead of looking at what he was trying to accomplish and happened to trip because he tried too hard.