I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.

Proverbs 31:9
Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

Proverbs 31:20
She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.

Luke 3:11
He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.

Acts 20:35
I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

Romans 12:15
Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.

Romans 15:1
We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Romans 12:20
Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.

I Corinthians 13:3
And though I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

II Corinthians 1:3-5
Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.

Galatians 6:2, 10
Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all [men], especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

I Thessolonians 5:14
Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.

James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.

James 2:15-16
If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be [ye] warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?

I Peter 3:8
Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, [be] pitiful, be courteous:

The Good Samaritan - Luke 10:25-37

A Child's Prayer - M. Bentham-Edwards

Androcles and the Lion - Retold by James Baldwin

Thumbling - Hans Christian Anderson

The Little Match Girl - Hans Christian Anderson

Clara Barton (Biography)

A Christmas Carol- Charles Dickens

The Gift of the Magi - O'Henry

O Captain! My Captain - Walt Whitman