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Think What The World Could Look Like If We Took Care Of The Poor Even Half As Well As We Do Our Bibles!

Do Not Give To The Poor Expecting To Get Their Gratitude So That You Can Feel Good About Yourself. If You Do, Your Giving Will Be Thin And Short-lived, And That Is Not What The Poor Need; It Will Only Improvish Them Further. Give Only If You Have Something You Must Give; Give Only If You Are Someone For Whom Giving Is Its Own Reward.

This Is So Rich A Country That Luxury Has Developed At The Expense Of Necessities, And Even The Destitute Partake Of The Luxury. We Are The Rich Country Of The World, Like Dives At The Feast. We Must Try Hard, We Must Study To Be Poor Like Lazarus At The Gate, Who Was Taken Into Abraham's Bosom.

Voluntary Poverty Isn't Going Around With Some Burlap Bag Around You And Imitating The Poor. It Means Being Indifferent To The Material, Doing As Christ Said. He Went And Sat Down With The Rich And Zachaeus And Publicans And Sinners.

As We Come To Know The Seriousness Of The Situation, The War, The Racism, The Poverty In Our World, We Come To Realize That Things Will Not Be Changed Simply By Words Or Demonstrations. Rather, It's A Question Of Living One's Life In A Drastically Different Way.