What is superfluous to your poor estate, distribute. This is distributive charity: a virtue so sacred that crimes against it are the forerunner of inevitable doom.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Strangely, charity sometimes gets dismissed, as if it is ineffective, inappropriate or even somehow demeaning to the recipient. 'This isn't charity,' some donors take pains to claim, 'This is an investment.' Let us recognize charity for what it is at heart: a noble enterprise aimed at bettering the human condition.
Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune.
The character of a people may be ruined by charity.
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.
Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed onto mankind.
Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.
Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.