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“Never let the right hand know what the left is doing.”

This is a proverb with a Christian origin. It is referring to charity.

Maybe you know someone like this:

A woman gives money or goods frequently to charity, but she uses every opportunity to mention to others that she does so. She will even say what she donated or how much money specifically. It makes people wonder, “Is she really charitable, or is she doing it for attention from others?”

I call people like this “those who pat their own backs”. It can be anyone who does anything for others, and then brags about it for the sole purpose of making themselves look better.

This proverb suggests that we should be charitable for the purpose of ….being charitable.^^ We shouldn’t do it to receive praises from others, or for self-satisfaction.  We should do these types of things without mention.

Anyhow, that’s what this proverb means to me.