The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
For the unclean spirit enters easily into a man, and easily goes out from him. — Bruno of Cologne Copy Share Image
The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms. — John Donne Copy Share Image
To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes. [To steal the hog, and give the feet to alms.] — George Herbert Copy Share Image
There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
What if I should discover that the poorest of the beggars and the most impudent of offenders are all within me; and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools… — William Penn Copy Share Image
If you disclose your alms, even then it is well done, but if you keep them secret, and give them to the… — Muhammad Copy Share Image
As far as you can, do some manual work so as to be able to give alms, for it is written that… — Poemen Copy Share Image
He who feels that the vice of avarice has got hold of him, should not wish to observe fasts of supererogation, but… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
I have pleaded (labor's) case, not in the quavering tones of a feeble mendicant asking alms, but in the thundering voice of… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
Those good men who take such pleasure in relieving the miserable for Christ's sake, would not have been less forward to minister… — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My body, now close to fifty years of age, has become an old tree that bears bitter peaches, a snail which has… — Matsuo Basho Copy Share Image
Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Yet, when we must put aside our wrath, quench our envy, soften our anger, offer our prayers, and show a disposition which… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
If you are to go to Christ, do not put on your good doings and feelings, or you will get nothing; go… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The best remedy for dryness of spirit, is to picture ourselves as beggars in the presence of God and the Saints, and… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
Never have I greater reason for suspicion that when I am particularly pleased with myself, my faith, my progress, and my alms. — Christian Scriver Copy Share Image
The greatest saint in the world is not he who prays most or fasts most; it is not he who gives alms,… — William Law Copy Share Image
Almsgiving above all else requires money, but even this shines with a brighter luster when the alms are given from our poverty.… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
there is less alms-giving in America than in any other Christian country on the face of the globe. It is not in… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
For the devil may tempt the good, but he cannot find rest in them; for he is shaken violently, and upset, and… — Bruno of Cologne Copy Share Image
Are we not to pity and supply the poor, though they have no relation to us? No relation? That cannot be. The… — Thomas Sprat Copy Share Image
For when the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through places without water, seeking rest; and not finding. . . — Bruno of Cologne Copy Share Image
Recollections of the past and visions of the present come to bear me company; the meanest man to whom I have ever… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
He who has been impoverished for a long timewho has long stood before the door of the mighty in darkness and begged… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
But what if I should discover that the least amongst them all, the poorest of all beggars, the most impudent of all… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
We may cover a multitude of sins with the white robe of charity. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, himself, his hungering neighbor and me. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
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