Top 104 Alms Quotes & Sayings

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

Even a poor man doesn't ask alms unless he sees you have the ability to give.

The poor should live by alms.

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.

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

I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.

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

Better to me the poor mans crust, Better the blessing of the poor, Though I turn me empty from his door; That is no true alms which the hand can hold; He gives nothing but worthless gold Who gives from a sense of duty; But he who gives a slender mite, And gives to that which is out of sight, That thread of the all-sustaining Beauty Which runs through all and doth all unite, - The hand cannot clasp the whole of his alms, The heart outstretches its eager palms, For a god goes with it and makes it store To the soul that was starving in darkness before.

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

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

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.

Let us also love our neighbors as ourselves. Let us have charity and humility. Let us give alms because these cleanse our souls from the stains of sin. Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.

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.

I have pleaded (labor's) case, not in the quavering tones of a feeble mendicant asking alms, but in the thundering voice of the captain of a mighty host, demanding the rights to which free men are entitled.

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

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

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

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

People do not care to give alms without some security for their money; and a wooden leg or a withered arm is a sort of draft upon heaven for those who choose to have their money placed to account there.

Loving words and deeds are the best alms.

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

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.

Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits.

The best remedy for dryness of spirit, is to picture ourselves as beggars in the presence of God and the Saints, and like a beggar, to go first to one saint, then to another, to ask a spiritual alms of them with the same earnestness as a poor fellow in the streets would ask an alms of us.

Of all times, it is Christmas when we must surely realize that there can be no true worship of Him who is the Christ without giving of ourselves. At this season let us, each one, reach out a little more generously in the spirit of the Christ. It is not enough to give toys and baubles. It is not enough to give alms to those in need.... It is also important that we give of ourselves with our 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.

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

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

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

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

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

If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.

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

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

There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.

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.

For myself I think that one wrong does not right the other, and forgiveness cannot be won with useless tears or alms to the Church.

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.

So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give.

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 alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.

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.

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.

'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.

In the future society, i.e. the communist society that we want to build, we are not going to establish charity institution, as there shall be no needy or poor, and no alms-giving and alms-taking.

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

I pray like a robber asking alms at the door of a farmhouse to which he is ready to set fire.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Consider this: alms aside, Wikipedia is fueled by competitive pedantry and emo-ness. How great is that?

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

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

Tell me, when you give alms do you look into the eyes of the man or woman to whom you give alms? . . . And when you give alms, do you touch the hand of the one to whom you give alms, or do you toss the coin?

The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.

All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate.

We must give alms. Charity wins souls and draws them to virtue.

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.