April 13

Share your blessings


“I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me” (Matt 25:35,36).

Nothing is more pitiful than a life spent in thinking of nothing but self, yes, even in thinking of nothing but one’s own soul.
—Canon Farrar.

Nearly all of our controversies and combats arise from the fact that we are trying to get something from each other. There will be peace when our aim is to do something for each other. Society will take an immeasurable step toward peace when it estimates a citizen by his output rather than by his income.
—W. J. Bryan.


I had a little tea-party
This afternoon at three;
’Twas very small, three guests in all—
Just I, Myself, and Me.
Myself ate up the sandwiches,
While I drank up the tea,
’Twas also I who ate the pie,
And passed the cake to Me.

The way to get is to scatter that you have. Give, and you shall gain. If you ask me how I shall get riches I make thee this answer—scatter that thou hast, for giving is gaining. But you must take heed and scatter it according unto God’s will and pleasure: that is, to relieve the poor withal, to scatter it amongst the flock of Christ; whosoever giveth so shall surely gain, for Christ saith, “Give, and it shall be given unto you.” It shall be given unto you—this is a sweet word, we can not well away with that; but how shall we come by it?—Give.
—Bishop Latimer.

In care for the sick and poor, Christianity stands almost alone. You see but little of this anywhere but among true Christians. It is, however, an essential requisite in their character. “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.”
—John Hunt.

Those who give have all things; they who withhold, nothing.
—Hindu Proverb.

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