All crush'd and stone-cast in behaviour,
She stood as a marble would stand,
Then the Saviour bent read more

All crush'd and stone-cast in behaviour,
She stood as a marble would stand,
Then the Saviour bent down, and the Saviour
In silence wrote on in the sand.

No farther seek his merits to disclose,
Or draw his frailties from their dread abode
(There they read more

No farther seek his merits to disclose,
Or draw his frailties from their dread abode
(There they alike in trembling hope repose),
The bosom of his Father and his God.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense

True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense

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

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

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?

And now abideth faith, hope and charity, these three, but the greatest of these is charity. [Corinthians].

And now abideth faith, hope and charity, these three, but the greatest of these is charity. [Corinthians].

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the
greatest of these is charity.

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the
greatest of these is 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.