Consider this: alms aside, Wikipedia is fueled by competitive pedantry and emo-ness. How great is that? — Mary H.K. Choi Copy Share Image
If we should be saved and become saints, we ought always to stand at the gates of the Divine mercy to beg… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
I pray like a robber asking alms at the door of a farmhouse to which he is ready to set fire. — Leon Bloy Copy Share Image
At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action. — Bono Copy Share Image
A spiritual prayer is a humble prayer. Prayer is the asking of an alms, which requires humility... The lower the heart descends,… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Satisfaction consists in the cutting off of the causes of the sin. Thus, fasting is the proper antidote to lust; prayer to… — Richard of Chichester Copy Share Image
The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man; insomuch, that if it issue not towards men, it will… — John Locke Copy Share Image
By our little acts of charity practiced in the shade we convert souls far away, we help missionaries, we win for them… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
Let us not make the poor our friends by our alms, not our enemies by our scorns. We had better have the… — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
In giving of thy alms, inquire not so much into the person, as his necessity. God looks not so much upon the… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Tell me, when you give alms do you look into the eyes of the man or woman to whom you give alms?… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Give a drink of water as alms to the birds which go forth at morning, and deem that they have a better… — Al-Maʿarri Copy Share Image
The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The following sentiments are illustrative of the philosophy of the Talmud: "Love peace and pursue it at any cost." ... "Remember it… — Frederic Farrar Copy Share Image
Let us also love our neighbors as ourselves. Let us have charity and humility. Let us give alms because these cleanse our… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
We are a material-mad race of people. Build, increase, expand, pile up, hoard! More and more and more. "If we can just… — Eugenia Price Copy Share Image
There is a kind of grandeur and respect which the meanest and most insignificant part of mankind endeavor to procure in the… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity i am bought and sold; for them i will go… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Of all times, it is Christmas when we must surely realize that there can be no true worship of Him who is… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
For myself I think that one wrong does not right the other, and forgiveness cannot be won with useless tears or alms… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
Also see how many quarters of corn you will spend in a week in dispensable bread, how much in alms. — Robert Grosseteste Copy Share Image
He once begged alms of a statue, and, when asked why he did so, replied, "To get practice in being refused." — Diogenes Copy Share Image
Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . . — John Vianney Copy Share Image
Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms. — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
Alms are an inheritance and a justice which is due to the poor and which Jesus has levied upon us. — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with anothers need; Not what we give, but what we share, For… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
There are many poor men and poor women: set apart some one constantly to remain there: let the poor man be though… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
If you want God to hear your prayers, hear the voice of the poor. If you wish God to anticipate your wants,… — Thomas of Villanova Copy Share Image
I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
“Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need, though it be your example which leaves them far behind.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Remain steadfast in the faith; instruct yourself; bridle your tongue; repress your wrath; forbear to do evil; associate with the good; screen… — Edouard Rene de Laboulaye Copy Share Image
If you are attached to the things of this earth, you should give alms sufficient to enable you to punish your avarice… — John Vianney Copy Share Image
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