For the Least of These Quotes

“From start to finish, what private charities do represents a manifestation of free will. No one is compelled to provide assistance. No one is coerced to pay for it. No one is required to accept it. All parties come together of their own volition. And therein lies the magic of it all! The link between the giver, the provider, and the receiver is strong precisely because each knows he can walk away from it at the slightest hint of insincerity, broken promises, or poor performance. Because each party gives his own time or resources voluntarily, he tends to focus on the mission and doesn’t get bogged down in secondary agendas like filling out the proper paperwork or currying favor with those in power. Management expert Peter Drucker summed it up well when he said that private charities, both faith-based and secular, “spend far less for results than governments spend for failure.”
― Anne Rathbone Bradley, For the Least of These: A Biblical Answer to Poverty

“Men and women of faith should be the first to argue that God does not need federal funds to do his work. When they get involved in charitable work, it’s usually with the knowledge that a change of heart will often do more than a welfare check to conquer poverty. They focus on changing hearts, one heart at a time.”
― Anne Bradley, For the Least of These: A Biblical Answer to Poverty

“the world is so charged with God’s grandeur that, if we had but eyes for it, we would discover his glory—and his grace—breaking out in the most ordinary of situations.”
― Anne Bradley, For the Least of These: A Biblical Answer to Poverty