HELPING THE POOR

If you want to be rich, give; if you want to be poor, grasp! 
If you want abundance, scatter; if you want to be needy, hoard!

“A man there was and they called him mad:

The more he gave, the more he had.” – ‘Pilgrim’s Progress,’ John Bunyan.

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Mat 6:2 (CEB): “Whenever you give to the poor, don’t blow your trumpet as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets so that they may get praise from people. I assure you, that’s the only reward they’ll get.”

“Let the lips of the poor be the trumpet of thy gift, lest in seeking applause, thou lose thy reward.” -  Francis Quarles.

Pro 19:17 (GNT): “When you give to the poor, it is like lending to the Lord, and the Lord will pay you back.”