Daily Virtue Quote – Ven. Fulton Sheen

“First, it will generally be found true that those who boast of their success in terms of money hardly ever help the poor. It is not that they are not generous, but that they are generous only to the rich. The haves are helped by those who have; it is the have-nots who help the have-nots. An institution worth half a billion dollars can easily get endowments and have drives for a hundred million dollars, but the ten million lepers in the world are lucky if they draw three hundred thousand dollars a year from pockets – but not the same pockets. What is the reason for this? It is partly because the rich measure their own lives in terms of success, and so they think that only those causes should be helped which are also successful. Furthermore, always having had the ‘breaks’ and good fortune, they are incapable of understanding the want and the misery of others. That is why the poor are more generous to the poor – because they know hunger, they give the little bread they have.”