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True Charity, a plant divinely nurs'd.
True Charity, a plant divinely nurs'd.
Charity begins at home.
[Lat., Proximus sum egomet mihi.]
Charity begins at home.
[Lat., Proximus sum egomet mihi.]
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.
When your courtyard twists, do not pour the water abroad.
When your courtyard twists, do not pour the water abroad.
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.
The living need charity more than the dead.
The living need charity more than the dead.
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.
Meek and lowly, pure and holy,
Chief among the "blessed three."
Meek and lowly, pure and holy,
Chief among the "blessed three."
