When you think about making money, you do not for a moment consider those poorer than yourself, you aspire to level yourself with those richer. It is only in religious matters that you show a tendency to modesty and self efifacement. It is only there that you meekly quote your inferiors. Why do you not rather imitate Zaccheus, who gave half his goods to the poor. One is reduced to wishing that the Christians of the present day would imitate the Pharisees, who gave the tenth of what they possessed.
Jesus Christ has a kingdom. He has taxes, domains, treasures, a treasury in heaven ; that treasury is the purse of the poor, the common purse such as He had on earth with His disciples. Levy a tax on yourselves, a settled tax upon the annual income you receive from your possessions, or your earnings—be your own Customs-officer. Now, will you make it a tenth ? I hope so, even though that’s not much, since that is what the Pharisees gave, and if your justice does not exceed that of the Pharisees you will not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
~St. Augustine
The poor hold out their hands, but God receives what is given to them.
~Pere Chassay.
Jesus Christ has a kingdom. He has taxes, domains, treasures, a treasury in heaven ; that treasury is the purse of the poor, the common purse such as He had on earth with His disciples. Levy a tax on yourselves, a settled tax upon the annual income you receive from your possessions, or your earnings—be your own Customs-officer. Now, will you make it a tenth ? I hope so, even though that’s not much, since that is what the Pharisees gave, and if your justice does not exceed that of the Pharisees you will not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
~St. Augustine
The poor hold out their hands, but God receives what is given to them.
~Pere Chassay.
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