There are the haves and the have-nots – also the give-nots.
Charity Quotes
One summer day he heard it mentioned casually that there was a sick man in a field some distance away. Jack (C.S. Lewis) said “poor devil” and continued to write; then he suddenly jumped up in distress and said, “I have sinned; I have shown myself lacking in all charity.” Out he went, found the […]
Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.
True generosity does not consist in obeying every impulse of humanity… so as to render us incapable of future ones.
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work we are in.
Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.
There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.
No man is so poor as to have nothing worth giving… Give what you have. To someone it may be better than you dare to think.
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that hath received it disclose it.
What we frankly give, forever is our own.
