Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money…

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

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Belief fails when it works not well indeed but is idle as a sleeping man... Each virtuous deed is strong when it is grounded…

— John Wycliffe

Love hunger and thirst for the sake of Christ. Insofar as you pacify your body, so much much will you do make your soul…

— Gennadius of Constantinople

It must not be supposed that happiness will demand many or great possessions; for self-sufficiency does not depend on excessive abundance, nor does moral…

— Aristotle

I never did a thing in all my life, virtuous or otherwise that I didn't repent of within twenty-four hours.

— Mark Twain

The principle office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should…

— Anonymous

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

— Enock Maregesi

I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for…

— Ben Hecht

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

— Henry David Thoreau

All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative…

— Walter Benjamin

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

— Fatima bint Muhammad

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your…

— Khalil Gibran

Those good men who take such pleasure in relieving the miserable for Christ's sake, would not have been less forward to minister onto Christ…

— Francis Atterbury

If you are to go to Christ, do not put on your good doings and feelings, or you will get nothing. Go in your…

— Charles Spurgeon