Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.

Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven.

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].

They take the paper and they read the headlines, So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of breadlines, And read more

They take the paper and they read the headlines, So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of breadlines, And they philanthropically cure them all By getting up a costume charity ball.

As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty: for beauty is simply read more

All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty: for beauty is simply Reality seen with the eyes of love.

Soft peace she brings, wherever she arrives:
She builds our quiet, as she forms our lives:
Lays read more

Soft peace she brings, wherever she arrives:
She builds our quiet, as she forms our lives:
Lays the rough paths of peevish Nature even,
And opens in each heart a little Heaven.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just read more

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

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.