Just give

Daily Reading for October 25

Give, looking for nothing again, that is, without consideration of future advantages: give to children, to old men, to the unthankful, and the dying, and to those you shall never see again: for else your alms and curtesy is not charity, but traffick and merchandise: and be sure that you omit not to relieve the needs of your enemy and the injurious; for so possibly you may win him to your self; but do you intend the winning him to God.

From Holy Living by Jeremy Taylor, quoted in Readings in Anglican Spirituality, complied by David Hein (Forward Movement Publications, 1991).

Posted by Vicki K. Black on October 25, 2008 4:00 AM | |
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