"There ought to be things we should..." - Quote by C S Lewis
There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them.
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“Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.”
“In what is necessary, unity; in what is not necessary, liberty and in all things charity.”
“There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity i am bought and sold; for them i will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots; and the thousandfold Relief Societies; - though i confess with shame i sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by i shall have the manhood to withhold.”
More on Sacrifice
“He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.”
“A mother would never by choice sleep in a wet bed but she would gladly do so in order to spare the dry bed for her child.”
“Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply,- "'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die."”