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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself. (Bodhidharma )
Prayer carries us half way to God, fasting brings us to the door of His palace, and alms-giving procures us admission. (Bodhidharma )
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work ;we are in. (Bodhidharma )
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. (Bodhidharma )
Teach us to give and not count the cost. (Bodhidharma )
To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike. (Bodhidharma )
As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another. (Bodhidharma )
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. I do not agree with the big way of doing things. (Bodhidharma )
To give requires good sense. (Bodhidharma )
The charitable give out the door and God puts it back through the window. (Bodhidharma )
Charity sees the need, not the cause. (Bodhidharma )
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it. (Bodhidharma )
The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work. (Bodhidharma )
The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich. (Bodhidharma )
Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made. (Bodhidharma )
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want. (Bodhidharma )
If you give money, spend yourself with it. (Bodhidharma )
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does. (Bodhidharma )
Charity creates a multitude of sins. (Bodhidharma )
I have a lot of charity work I'm into right now, and selling my Chakalates - supporting that whole effort. (Bodhidharma )
Since bidding for my jewel-encrusted bra in the eBay charity auction has exceeded our original expectations, I'm concerned that some of you may be confusing this bra for something that it's not. (Bodhidharma )
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