Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
Those who preached faith, or in other words a pure mind, have always produced more popular virtue than those who preached good acts, or the mere regulation of outward works.
No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights.
If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist? ...Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God.
Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another.
If God eliminated evil by programming us to perform only good acts, we would lose this distinguishing mark - the ability to make choices. We would no longer be free moral agents. We would be reduced to the status of robots.
Let's be the kind of people that do good for others whether we get paid back or not, whether they say thank you or not.
Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
