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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

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

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. — Maxim Gorky

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

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. — Jose Rizal

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. — Philip Neri

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

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. — Rebecca West

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

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. — Poemen

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

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

Sir 3:33 Water quencheth a flaming fire, and alms resisteth sins: — Various

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I myself have always, since that day, felt it my duty to give alms to murderers in Eastern lands. — Marmaduke William Pickthall