Charity QuotesForgiveness is the best charity. (It is easy to give the poor money and goods when one has plenty, but to forgive is hard; but it is the best thing if one can do it.)  If you want to pray to God for better means of subsistence, then first give something in charity. Do not feel ashamed if the amount of charity is small because to refuse the needy is an act of greater shame. In charity there is no excess. Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity. Fasting is a shield against (hell) fire. Charity and dole remove and finish sin, as does the remembrance of Allah in the midnight. The worst of men is he who stops his contributions to charity, eats by himself, and whips his slave. The living need charity more than the dead. He had that faint sick look in his eyes, as if he wanted to give her something, charity for instance. Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence. He that defers his charity 'till he is dead, is (if a man weighs it rightly) rather liberal of another man's, than of his own. Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. The hushed winds wail with feeble moan
Like infant charity. The best kind of charity is to help those who are willing to help themselves. Thare iz a grate deal ov charity in this world so koldly rendered that it fairly hurts, it iz like lifting a drowning man out ov the water bi the hair ov the hed, and then letting him drop on the ground. |
