CHARITY

 

CHARITY       

            In religion charity is one of the seven great virtues. It means helping  those people who are in need of some kind of voluntary help.  It is not giving help and taking it in return .In fact,  it is voluntary giving  such as money, food, goods, time, etc; as a matter of goodwill, without expecting personal gain.

            Unselfish assistance, donation, contribution, gift, endowment, philanthropy, benefaction and alms- giving can be termed as good as charity.

            Charitable persons are liberal, helpful, generous, gracious, sympathetic, kind-hearted, benevolent, humanitarian, magnanimous,, large-hearted, bountiful, etc.

            The Greek poet Homer (Born around the 8^th century BCE) said empathetically (understanding and sharing  the feelings of another) : The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.

            Here are some famous thoughts on charity:

1.     Let the man who has and doesn’t give break his neck and cease to live.

2.     Let him who gives without a care gather rubies from the air.

3.     What we frankly give, forever is our own.

4.     As the purse is emptied the heart is filled.

5.     That charity which longs to publish itself, ceases to be charity.

6.     This only is charity, to do all, all that we can.

7.     Charity deals with symptoms instead of causes.

8.     Charity gives itself rich; covetousness hoards itself poor….. German proverb.  

9.     Defer not charities till death.

10.                         The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, lie scattered at the feet of men like flowers.---English poet William Wordsworth (1770-1850).

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G.R.Kanwal

6^th January 2026