If you give money, spend yourself with it.

If you give money, spend yourself with it.

It is religion to be thus forsworn,
For charity itself fulfills the law
And who can never read more

It is religion to be thus forsworn,
For charity itself fulfills the law
And who can never love from charity?

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.

Charity and treating begin at home.

Charity and treating begin at home.

Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity.

Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity.

He is truly great who hath a great charity.

He is truly great who hath a great charity.

And thou I bestow all my good to feed the poor, and though I give
my body to be read more

And thou I bestow all my good to feed the poor, and though I give
my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me
nothing.

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the
desire of knowledge in excess caused man read more

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the
desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in charity
there is no excess, neither can angel or man come in danger by
it.