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Christmas gift suggestions:To your enemy, forgiveness.To an opponent, tolerance.To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. read more
Christmas gift suggestions:To your enemy, forgiveness.To an opponent, tolerance.To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.
 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have 
not charity, I am become as read more 
 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have 
not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 
 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. 
 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. 
 Charity begins at home.
 [Lat., Proximus sum egomet mihi.]  
 Charity begins at home.
 [Lat., Proximus sum egomet mihi.] 
 Lady, you know no rules of charity,
 Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.  
 Lady, you know no rules of charity,
 Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses. 
The voice of the world ["Charity begins at home"].
The voice of the world ["Charity begins at home"].
What we frankly give, forever is our own.
What we frankly give, forever is our own.
Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to read more
Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.