Liberality (Virtue) To follow in the way of Jesus, then, is to be free: to be free from deadening self-service, so as to be free for love. It follows that liberality has nothing to do with what is cheap, tawdry, proud, vain, cruel, negligent, or insensible. When Jesus first sent...
Alms Alms or almsgiving involves giving to others as an act of virtue, either materially or in the sense of providing capabilities (e.g. education) free. It exists in a number of religions and cultures. The word, in the modern English language, comes from the Old English ælmesse, ælmes, from Late Latin eleemosyna, from Greek eleēmosynē (“pity, alms”), from eleēmōn...
Alms And Almsgiving Any material favour done to assist the needy, and prompted by charity, is (alms and) almsgiving. It is evident, then, that almsgiving implies much more than the transmission of some temporal commodity to the indigent. According to the creed of political economy, every material deed wrought by...