Alms Quotes · Page 2

Loving words and deeds are the best alms.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

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

— Leon Bloy

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Robert Herrick

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

— Edmund Burke

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

— Robert Grosseteste

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Lord Acton

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If we should be saved and become saints, we ought always to stand at the gates of the Divine mercy to beg…

— Alphonsus Liguori

Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his benefits on…

— Francis Atterbury

'Alms in secret extinguish the wrath of the Lord' means you are so immersed in sincerity and in preserving that sincerity that…

— Shams Tabrizi

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

— Maxim Gorky

Fellows of colleges in the universities are in one sense the recipients of alms, because they receive funds which originally were of…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

— Thomas Watson

Tell me, when you give alms do you look into the eyes of the man or woman to whom you give alms?…

— Pope Francis

Let us not make the poor our friends by our alms, not our enemies by our scorns. We had better have the…

— Thomas Adams

Do not give alms promiscuously. Select the unworthy poor and make them happy. To give to the deserving is a duty, but…

— George Ade

For if you change from inhumanity to alms giving, you have stretched fourth the hand that was withered. If you withdraw from…

— Saint John Chrysostom

Do not be ashamed of being poor, or of asking alms. Receive what is given you with humility, and accept a refusal…

— Saint Francis de Sales

In giving of thy alms, inquire not so much into the person, as his necessity. God looks not so much upon the…

— Francis Quarles

She who only finds her self-esteem In others' admiration, begs an alms; Depends on others for her daily food, And is the…

— Joanna Baillie

Yes, my dear children, everything is good and precious in God's sight when we act from the motives of religion and of…

— John Vianney

Thus Gotama [Buddha] walked toward the town to gather alms, and the two samanas recognized him solely by the perfection of his…

— Hermann Hesse

Do not fret under such assistance as is needful; therein lies one great grace of poverty. It were overambitious to aim at…

— Saint Francis de Sales

“Pesa itolewe kwa masharti au bila masharti chukua, kwani huyo aliyeitoa si yake. Benki, kwa mfano, ikitaka kukupa mkopo itakuwa na masharti…

— Enock Maregesi

This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks,…

— Walt Whitman

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

— Diogenes

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

— Matthew McConaughey

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ambrose

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

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Paul-Jean Toulet

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

— John Vianney

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

— Angela Merici

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

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— William Beveridge

If you don't open the door to him who begs your alms, one day you will have to open it to the…

— Vikrant Parsai

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

— Bruno of Cologne

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

— Francis of Assisi