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Charity is not indifference to the troubles, needs, and requests of people-it is unselfish concern for our smaller brothers and sisters… This feeling is inside a person, it encourages you to respond to troubles and sincerely sympathize. It is either there or not, if a person thinks, well, what to do I can not help everyone, and it does not concern me, then charity is alien, from their capabilities, not even financial people help another. Who is in word, who is in deed, who is in shelter, who can do what
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The source of charity is love for one's neighbor. This is such a movement of the soul, when without looking back, when you see trouble, there is a desire to help. Simply so. Because you know or feel that the other person needs help.
Mercy is neither compassion nor empathy at all. You can experience both in yourself and not show it in any way. This is primarily an action( or omission in the case of forgiveness).
This concept is difficult to describe without referring to the Bible and Christianity. The source of charity is love. A person is not particularly inclined to mercy, but more to judgment, condemnation. 99% of all human grace is based on being pleasing to the soul. It is not for nothing that they say that altruism is a refined form of selfishness.
A person can forgive, but not up to seven times seventy times.
The mercy of God based on love for people was clearly manifested in Christ.
Most people have done so much in their lives that they can't get clean, especially in front of God. Therefore, many are worthy of either death or judgment.
But now the sacrifice of Christ has changed everything that was before. Now it is no longer “an eye for an eye and an eye for an eye”, but the mercy of God has become superior to judgment. That is why cmvilizatsiya is alive now. And on the people who do so – the whole world and hold on.
So called the quality of a person when he selflessly helps someone in a difficult situation or forgives his abuser. The concept of “charity” is firmly established in the Christian virtues.