“Let us give with glad and generous hearts. Giving has a way of routing out the tough old miser within us. Even the poor need to know that they can give. Just the very act of letting go of money, or some other treasure, does something within us. It destroys the demon greed.”
Richard Foster in The Challenge of the Disciplined Life: Christian Reflections on Money Sex and Power (New York: HarperCollins, 1985) 35