Alms Quotes
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Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms.
— William Beveridge
My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
— Alphonsus Liguori
Every fulfilled wish we wrest from the world is really like alms that keep the beggar alive today so that he can starve again tomorrow.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
We must give alms. Charity wins souls and draws them to virtue.
— Angela Merici
Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give, if thou can, an alms; if not, a sweet and gentle word.
— Robert Herrick
Alms (is) for the purity of your soul, and flourishment and expansion of your sustenence.
— Fatima Bint Muhammad
She refuses all amorous alms, and such a refusal, to my view, justifies a theft.
— Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
Marriage is a state of penance. It calls for prayer, fasting, alms-deeds, renunciation, and the intention to increase the Kingdom of God.
— Anne Catherine Emmerich
The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
As adults our life is reduced to giving alms to others and receiving them in return. We squander our personalities in orgies of coexistence.
— Fernando Pessoa
One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action.
— Bono
The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
— John Donne
So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give.
— Robert G. Ingersoll
Walking does good to the fat and giving alms does good to the sinners; these both make one feel lighter!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Never have I greater reason for suspicion that when I am particularly pleased with myself, my faith, my progress, and my alms.
— Christian Scriver
The poor should live by alms.
— Benedict Joseph Labre
When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what they right hand doeth.
— Matthew McConaughey
Said I, "Not half an hour ago Your Mother has had alms of mine.
— William Wordsworth
Oh, I envy you!" he cried. "You are still nourished by yesterday's alms, but yesterday's happiness no longer nourishes me.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
In giving alms, let us rather look at the needs of the poor than his claim to your charity.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
I pray like a robber asking alms at the door of a farmhouse to which he is ready to set fire.
— Leon Bloy
Loving words and deeds are the best alms.
— Mata Amritanandamayi
Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money that you yourself worked to get.
— Leo Tolstoy
Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Alms are an inheritance and a justice which is due to the poor and which Jesus has levied upon us.
— Francis Of Assisi
Where there is plenty, charity is a duty, not a courtesy
— Owen Feltham
I do not give alms; I am not poor enough for that.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Let us not overlook so great a gain.
— Saint John Chrysostom
To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.
— John Ruskin
Also see how many quarters of corn you will spend in a week in dispensable bread, how much in alms.
— Robert Grosseteste
To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes.[To steal the hog, and give the feet to alms.] — George Herbert
There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.
— Lord Acton
Sita waits anxiously, and the next person she sees is a wandering monk who begs her for alms.
— Deepak Chopra
The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode.
— Henry David Thoreau
How long will you carry this burden - the fame you earned by frivolous alms? Give it to him who owns the whole, the Lord of earth and the skies above.
— Preeth Nambiar
I myself have always, since that day, felt it my duty to give alms to murderers in Eastern lands.
— Marmaduke William Pickthall