charity

It__ much harder to twist the charitable arm of a lottery winner compared to that of a man at his lowest ebb. It sounds like the wrong way round at first, but when you really put your nut to it, people are more frightened of losing the big shit than of having fuck all to begin with and losing a bit of that.

On the wall of Amshad's office there was a poster that made me laugh: DO NOT GIVE ME A BANGLE, GIVE ME A PEN. Well-meaning charities often train illiterate slum women to make cheap trinkets.

From 15 to 18 is an age at which one is very sensitive to the sins of others, as I know from recollections of myself. At that age you don__ look for what is hidden. It is a sign of maturity not to be scandalized and to try to find explanations in charity.

Imagine for a moment that life has given you everything you dream about, but you won__ be happy, because happiness comes when you pursue your dreams, otherwise it is not your dream, but charity.

Frequently give up some of your property by giving it with a generous heart to the poor ... It is true that God will repay us not only in the next world but even in this.

Indolent and unworthy the beggar may be__ut that is not your concern: It is better, said Joseph Smith, to feed ten impostors than to run the risk of turning away one honest petition.

Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need, though it be your example which leaves them far behind. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do not merely abandon it to them.

There are two things you should know about the poor: they tend to smell, and they are ungrateful.

If you have two shirts in your closet, one belongs to you and the other to the man with no shirt.

Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.

Lets toil under the sun to build poles of love. And let our roots be planted like strong trees that strong winds can't move.

In every human act of charity, something larger, greater, divine has come down to visit the act.

If I had not grown up in Nigeria- and if all I knew of Africa were of popular images- I too would think that africa was a place of beautiful landscapes, beautiful animals and incomprehensible people fighting sensless wars, dying of poverty and aids- unable to speak for themselves and waiting to be saved by a kind white foreigner.

Africa was full of people in need of help and there had to be a limit. You simply could not help everybody; but you could at least help those who came into your life. That principle allowed you to deal with the suffering you saw. That was your suffering. Other people would have to deal with the suffering that they, in their turn, came across.

Charity sees the need, not the cause.

The instructive admonitions, __ive an account of thy stewardship,____ccupy till I come;_ are forgotten. Thus the generous and wakeful spirit of Christian Benevolence, seeking and finding every where occasions for its exercise, is exploded, and a system of decent selfishness is avowedly established in its stead; a system scarcely more to be abjured for its impiety, than to be abhorred for its cold insensibility to the opportunities of diffusing happiness.

He knew why he and the other children received ice cream only when newspaper photographers came to visit, and why food and clothing donated for the children got furtively resold outside the orphanage gate.

When you judge yourself for needing help, you judge those you are helping. When you attach value to giving help, you attach value to needing help.