Quotes About Poor box

I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles; I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows.

Have you been hanging out with Father Mulligan again? He's always handing out that two-cent advice of his. He only charged you two cents? He made me fill his poor box, Nicolae said, straight-faced. And he didn't offer a single word on marriage. He just said to have courage, whatever that meant. Destiny burst out laughing. The old fraud, he probably said that on purpose just to make me crazy.