Love proves itself by deeds, so how am I to show my love? Great deeds are forbidden me. The only way I can prove my love is by scattering flowers, and these flowers are every little sacrifice, every glance and word, and the doing of the least actions for love.

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

You can't live a perfect day until you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Love works not for profit nor reward; yet God has ordained that great gain shall be the certain result of every labor of love.

Give generously of what you have, and if you don't have much, give little generously.

Do not expect human beings to reward you, don't even think about it, just LOVE, because you know at the end of the day it will be God who will give you the reward.

True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.

Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.

Lord, teach me to be generous; Teach me to serve you as you deserve; To give and not to count the cost; To fight and not to heed the wounds; To toil, and not to seek for rest; To labor, and not to ask for reward - except to know that I am doing your will.

I have nothing, I owe a great deal, and the rest I leave to the poor.

Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need, though it be your example which leaves them far behind. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do not merely abandon it to them.

I did not feel lonesome; if I was not afraid; and the like. Others have been curious to learn what portion of my income I devoted to charitable purposes; and some, who have large families, how many poor children I maintained