We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.
Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits.
Almost every Monday I have a charity thing. I like that. I do.
Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, when I give I give myself.
Charity creates a multitude of sins.
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.