How does the principle of wisdom and order apply to giving alms to the poor?

Thomas R. Valletta

“All things must be done … without excesses or extremes. An example of going to the extreme would be if you tried to demonstrate inordinate or overzealous compliance by selling or giving away everything you have in order to bless others, but leaving your own family destitute. … President Harold B. Lee once gave this valuable counsel: ‘Most men do not set priorities to guide them in allocating their time, and most men forget that the first priority should be to maintain their own spiritual and physical strength. Then comes their family, then the Church, and then their professions—and all need time’ [Teachings of Harold B. Lee, 615]” (Ogden and Skinner, Book of Mormon, 1:321).

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