Is it giving a hateful response to someones display of pain?
Is it giving money, or toys, coats. Helping serve a meal to the
homeless a couple days a week?
When you see a drunk with his hair standing up on his head, and
he blows his booze breath in your face?
Do you make an ugly face, and turn away from the ugliness?
Or do you treat him like a human being who is pain?
When you can treat a derelict on the street as you would the
ambassador of another country. You will know what charity is.
Because that derelict is an ambassador of your Creator on
High!
Thank you for these words Holy Spirit!
SPIRITUAL WARRIOR
2006-10-23 09:50:34 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
So, if you don't know what it is, you suppose you're charitable. Ok...
Are you or aren't you? Don't answer outloud, just answer yourself. And if you are known to do these things you've listed, why let it bother you that someone says otherwise?
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2006-10-23 09:54:04 · answer #1 · answered by twowords 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Charity is putting the needs of someone else before your own, and being willing to give time to attend to a person in need.
It's as simple as that. Also, charity should not be given with a thought of personal gain...or it can't truly be called charity.
2006-10-23 16:53:34 · answer #2 · answered by Rabid 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't treat President Bush with anymore respect I'd pay a bum on the street. I give money to science to find cures for all kinds of diseases. I also give away stuff in my house to make room for more stuff. It's easy just to take it down to Salvation Army.
2006-10-23 16:53:15 · answer #3 · answered by a sock 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess you answered your own question. But drunks make a choice to be drunk. I'd save my charity for those who need help the most. How about the people in Darfur? How about children in hospitals or battered women and children. Cancer patients or people in need of medicines.
2006-10-23 16:55:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everyone defines charity differently. For most people, I believe it means being able to give freely of themselves and their worldly posessions to those around them (friends and family or others in need). This small act of giving allows the receiver to feel better about their surroundings in turn allows the giver to feel closer to their "higher power".
Why? Because it is what you would want someone to do for you if you were in the same position. It is hard to humble yourself to the point of having to ask for another being's assistance. Try it, don't just ask for something trivial, denigrate yourself to the point of hopelessness, then try it. It isn't so easy. Being independant is a part of who we are, so if another can allow us to keep that dignity (or at least some part of it), so much the better for both parties involved. Charity is what allows us to fulfill that option of both hope and independence. Given freely, without strings, it gets people back on their feet, maybe to return the favor to someone else (and that's karma, and yet another definition).
According to the dictionary, here are the definitions of charity:
char·i·ty (chr-t)
n. pl. char·i·ties
1. Provision of help or relief to the poor; almsgiving.
2. Something given to help the needy; alms.
3. An institution, organization, or fund established to help the needy.
4. Benevolence or generosity toward others or toward humanity.
5. Indulgence or forbearance in judging others. See Synonyms at mercy.
6. often Charity Christianity The theological virtue defined as love directed first toward God but also toward oneself and one's neighbors as objects of God's love.
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[Middle English charite, from Old French, Christian love, from Latin crits, affection, from crus, dear; see k- in Indo-European roots.]
2006-10-23 17:15:51 · answer #5 · answered by TriviaBuff 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
charitable-
–adjective 1. generous in donations or gifts to relieve the needs of indigent, ill, or helpless persons, or of animals: a charitable man giving much money to feed the poor.
2. kindly or lenient in judging people, acts, etc.: charitable in his opinions of others.
3. pertaining to or concerned with charity: a charitable institution
2006-10-23 16:55:10 · answer #6 · answered by Jessica M 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Charity is love, but its also giving to someone when you never expect anything in return.
2006-10-23 16:53:03 · answer #7 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the Bible the word "charity" is simply translated "love."
2006-10-23 16:53:27 · answer #8 · answered by beattyb 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Charity is the pure love of Christ.
2006-10-23 17:03:54 · answer #9 · answered by Tonya in TX - Duck 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being charitable is being loving and loving all God's creation. Its simple to say, not always so simple to do!
2006-10-23 16:54:43 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋