In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.

Every day you have less reason Not to give yourself away.

If you love and serve men, you cannot by any hiding or stratagem escape the remuneration. Secret retributions are always restoring the level, when disturbed, of the divine justice. It is impossible to tilt the beam. All the tyrants and proprietors and monopolists of the world in vain set their shoulders to heave the bar. Settles forevermore the ponderous equator to its line, and man and mote, and star and sun, must range to it, or be pulverized by the recoil.[11]

If I could sum up what the Bible teaches about giving in one statement, it would be this: Generous living produces emotional happiness.

I would learn then that generosity has little or nothing to do with how much money you have or how far along you perceive yourself to be on your spiritual journey. In fact, I was shocked to learn that being generous has much more to do with being smart, shrewd, wise, and deliriously happy. In a word, I discovered that generosity is genius!

Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.

The charitable system that does not aim to make itself unnecessary is not performing service.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth chapters, where he urges some of the Christian communities to be generous to others so that they may also have the chance to be generous in return.