“Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing. They do not hope for succour from God, therefore are they discontent and impatient. They have nothing to raise their spirits, therefore are they abject.”
Isaac Barrow (1630-1677) English Christian Theologian and Mathematician in The Works of Isaac Barrow (New York: John C. Riker, 1845) 178.