Book of Tobit

The Book of Tobit is a book of scripture that is part of the Catholic and Orthodox biblical canon.

Do not turn your face away from anyone who is poor, and the face of God will not be turned away from you.

Quotes

• Those who act in accordance with truth will prosper.
  • Tobit 4:6 NRSV

• Give alms from your possessions, and do not let your eye begrudge the gift when you make it. Do not turn your face away from anyone who is poor, and the face of God will not be turned away from you.
  • Tobit 4:7 NRSV

Quotes about Tobit

• The young Tobias wanted to marry Sarah the daughter of Raguel and Edna. But a sad fatality hung over this young girl. She had been given to seven husbands, all of whom had perished in the bride-chamber. With a view to my plan this feature is a blemish in the narrative, for almost irresistably a comic effect is produced by the thought of seven fruitless attempts to get married notwithstanding she was very near to it just as near as a student who seven times failed to get his diploma.
  • Soren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling 1843 Lowrie tr 1941 p. 111

• Put a man in Sarah’s place, let him know that in case he were to love a girl a spirit of hell would come and murder his loved one -- it might well be possible that he would choose the demoniacal part, that he would shut himself up within himself and say in the way a demoniacal nature talks in secret, "Many thanks, I am no friend of courteous and prolix phrases, I do not absolutely need the pleasure of love, I can become a Blue Beard, finding my delight in seeing maidens perish during the night of their nuptials.
  • Soren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling 1843 Lowrie tr 1941 p. 114