What is a charitable heart? It is a heart which is burning with love f — Charity

"Th Almighty said, Let there be light, Effulgent rays appearing. Dispelld the gloom, the glory bright To this new world was cheering... Another light, so clear and bright, In mystic rays then shone; From east to west it spread so fast, That, Faith and Hope unfurld, We hail with joy sweet Charity, The darling of the world."

"Charity is a calm, severe duty; it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever be considered a merit; its fulfilment is only what we owe to each other, and is a debt never paid to its full extent."

"So give to the poor; Im begging you, Im warning you, Im commanding you, Im ordering you."

"If you see charity, you see the Trinity."

"But whom do I treat unjustly," you say, "by keeping what is my own?" Tell me, what is your own? What did you bring into this life? From where did you receive it? It is as if someone were to take the first seat in the theater, then bar everyone else from attending, so that one person alone enjoys what is offered for the benefit of all in common — this is what the rich do. They seize before others have the opportunity, then claim them as their own by right of preemption. For if we all took only what was necessary to satisfy our own needs, giving the rest to those who lack, no one would be rich, no one would be poor, and no one would be in need."

"Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began."