"...it has come to pass, that most men give their alms contemptously.  Such depravity ought not to have been tolerable even among the pagans; of Christians something even more is required than to show a cheerful countenance and to render their duties pleasing with friendly words.  First, they must put themselves in the place of him who they see in need of their assistance, and pity his ill fortune as if they themselves experienced and bore it, so that they may be impelled by a feel of mercy and humaneness to go to his aid just as their own..."