No one can be a neighbor, unless he can be near

St. Augustine remarks on the superiority of local charity to what Dickens might call “telescopic philanthropy”:

“All other men are to be loved equally; but since you cannot be of assistance to everyone, those especially are to be cared for who are most closely bound to you by place, time or opportunity.”

On Christian Doctrine 1.29

 

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