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Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.
Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.
Soft peace she brings, wherever she arrives:
She builds our quiet, as she forms our lives:
Lays read more
Soft peace she brings, wherever she arrives:
She builds our quiet, as she forms our lives:
Lays the rough paths of peevish Nature even,
And opens in each heart a little Heaven.
If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.
When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.
But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first
to shew piety at home, and to read more
But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first
to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is
good and acceptable before God.
If you give money, spend yourself with it.
If you give money, spend yourself with it.
In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill-will to any
human being, and even compassionating those who read more
In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill-will to any
human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage
their fellow-men, not knowing what they do.
It is more blessed to give than to receive.
It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Our charity begins at home,
And mostly ends where it begins.
Our charity begins at home,
And mostly ends where it begins.