No-one I know, least of all me, is in the least bit charitable.
“I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. In other words, if our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements, etc., is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving away too little. If our charities do not at all pinch or hamper us, I should say they are too small. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them.” — C.S. Lewis
Ouch.
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That Lewis guy speaks truth
Aye, hard truth.
Is this why it is so hard to volunteer our time? We can write a check easily – we have so much money that we don’t even notice the scraps we donate are missing (though somehow manage to feel virtuous)… yet it is impossible to ignore the loss of our time.