Alms Quotes

Alms Quote of the day

The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt.

Satisfaction consists in the cutting off of the causes of the sin. Thus, fasting is the proper antidote to lust; prayer to pride, to envy, anger and sloth; alms to covetousness.

He once begged alms of a statue, and, when asked why he did so, replied, "To get practice in being refused."

If you are attached to the things of this earth, you should give alms sufficient to enable you to punish your avarice by depriving yourself of all that is not absolutely necessary for life.

If we should be saved and become saints, we ought always to stand at the gates of the Divine mercy to beg and pray for, as an alms, all that we need.

'Alms in secret extinguish the wrath of the Lord' means you are so immersed in sincerity and in preserving that sincerity that you have no pleasure in giving alms.

When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what they right hand doeth.

A trader does not squander his body as fodder or his soul as alms.

As far as you can, do some manual work so as to be able to give alms, for it is written that alms and faith purify from sin.

A spiritual prayer is a humble prayer. Prayer is the asking of an alms, which requires humility... The lower the heart descends, the higher the prayer ascends.

The poor should live by alms.

If you disclose your alms, even then it is well done, but if you keep them secret, and give them to the poor, then that is better still for you;?and this wipes off from you some of your evil deeds.

Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.

Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .

For the unclean spirit enters easily into a man, and easily goes out from him.

Where there is plenty, charity is a duty, not a courtesy

Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms.

At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action.

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

Alms are an inheritance and a justice which is due to the poor and which Jesus has levied upon us.

Loving words and deeds are the best alms.

The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode.

There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.

Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.

To bear many children is considered not only a religious blessing but also an investment. The greater their number, some Indians reason, the more alms they can beg.

The greatest saint in the world is not he who prays most or fasts most; it is not he who gives alms, or is most eminent for temperance, chastity or justice. It is he who is most thankful to God.

there is less alms-giving in America than in any other Christian country on the face of the globe. It is not in the temper of the people either to give or to receive.

One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand.

Alms (is) for the purity of your soul, and flourishment and expansion of your sustenence.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

Also see how many quarters of corn you will spend in a week in dispensable bread, how much in alms.

Give, if thou can, an alms; if not, a sweet and gentle word.

Let us not overlook so great a gain.

Let us not make the poor our friends by our alms, not our enemies by our scorns. We had better have the ears of God full of their prayers, than heaps of money in our own coffers with their curses.

Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, himself, his hungering neighbor and me.

To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes. [To steal the hog, and give the feet to alms.]

I do not give alms; I am not poor enough for that.

To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

Have you been working on Sunday? Have you been buying or selling without necessity in the course of this holy day? Give to the poor some alms which will exceed the profit you have made.

He who feels that the vice of avarice has got hold of him, should not wish to observe fasts of supererogation, but to give alms.

Never have I greater reason for suspicion that when I am particularly pleased with myself, my faith, my progress, and my alms.

A friar who asks alms for God's sake begs for two.

Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages.

A woman who loves her husband is merely paying her bills. A woman who loves her lover gives alms to the poor.

Walking does good to the fat and giving alms does good to the sinners; these both make one feel lighter!

Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money that you yourself worked to get.

Fellows of colleges in the universities are in one sense the recipients of alms, because they receive funds which originally were of an eleemosynary character.

The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.

In giving alms, let us rather look at the needs of the poor than his claim to your charity.