Sources of compassion: what does the Bible say?

This past Sunday in WorldMovers we discussed the startling increase of Americans using food stamps in the past decade.  In searching for a Biblcal position on thissubject,w e reviewed the scriptures listed here: 

Leviticus 19:10   Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen. Leave them for the poor and the alien. I am the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 15:11   For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.

Isaiah 58:7    Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?

I Samuel 2:7    The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.

Deuteronomy 8:18   But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.

Exodus 20:17   Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.

Proverbs 1:14-16    Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

Matthew 13:11, 12    He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.

A compelling question for us was, "What would a present day application of the gleaning principle look like?"  We definitely came away with a concern that we become more responsible, both as individuals and as a congregation, in our provisions for the poor.