In Finances, Be Strict With

Divine Providence Is Connected With Divine Intellectual Influence, And The Same Beings Which Are Benefited By The Latter So As To Become Intellectual, And To Comprehend Things Comprehensible To Rational Beings, Are Also Under The Control Of Divine Providence, Which Examines All Their Deeds With A View Of Rewarding Or Punishing Them. ...the Method Of Which Our Mind Is Incapable Of Understanding.

Man's Shortcomings And Sins Are All Due To The Substance Of The Body And Not To Its Form; While All His Merits Are Exclusively Due To His Form.

The Prophets Even Express Their Surprise That God Should Take Notice Of Man, Who Is Too Little And Too Unimportant To Be Worthy Of The Attention Of The Creator; How, Then, Should Other Living Creatures Be Considered As Proper Objects For Divine Providence!

Give A Man A Fish And You Feed Him For A Day; Teach A Man To Fish And You Feed Him For A Lifetime.

Anticipate Charity By Preventing Poverty; Assist The Reduced Fellow Man, Either By A Considerable Gift Or A Sum Of Money Or By Teaching Him A Trade Or By Putting Him In The Way Of Business So That He May Earn An Honest Livelihood And Not Be Forced To The Dreadful Alternative Of Holding Out His Hand For Charity. This Is The Highest Step And Summit Of Charity's Golden Ladder.