| Robert Treat Paine - Charities - 1879 - 536 pages
...charity is, and a mean idea of -whose duty it is to do it. Well says St. Paul, "Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." Alms are not the whole of charity. "Charity must do four things: — I. Believe worthy need... | |
| Sir William Tennant Gairdner - Bible - 1903 - 154 pages
...this, even in the face of that most pregnant antithesis of the great apostle — 'Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.' But this adoption of the Latin word ' caritas ' as the interpretation of agapt only carries... | |
| James Champlin Fernald - English language - 1904 - 352 pages
...that; notwithstanding; as, the road is passable, though it has been raining hard. Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor . . . and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. 1 Cor. xiii, 8. But to my mind, though I am native here, And to the manner born, it is a custom... | |
| James Champlin Fernald - English language - 1904 - 344 pages
...notwithstanding; as, the road is passable, //'",',.//, it has been raining hard. Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor . . . and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. 1 Cor. xiii, 8. But to my mind, though I am native here. And to the manner born, it is a custom... | |
| Caroline Southwood Smith Hill - Child development - 1906 - 132 pages
...this word what we mean by it — giving to the poor; on the contrary, he says, "Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." He places charity above all knowledge. " Though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand... | |
| Daniel Coit Gilman - Education - 1906 - 408 pages
...principle to help the forlorn and the unfortunate. Without this motive study is in vain. Though I give all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Likewise, one might have all the knowledge that mankind has gathered up respecting pauperism,... | |
| George Hodges - Sermons, American - 1906 - 330 pages
...right ministration to the poor, St. Paul considers in the half of a sentence : " Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." The words are of such everlasting importance that they have given philanthropy a new name... | |
| Houston Stewart Chamberlain - Civilization - 1910 - 690 pages
...thou hast and give it to the poor," Paul completes the saying by the remark, " and though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor and have not charity it profiteth me nothing." The Buddhist who is steering for death may be satisfied with poverty, chastity, and obedience... | |
| John King Clark - Moral education - 1910 - 248 pages
...poor always ye have with you." 2. TOPIC: THE SPIRIT OF CHARITY. Quotation: "And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, . . . and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." Questions: Explain above quotation. How then shall we give to the poor? 3. TOPIC: SPIRIT... | |
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