Better to me the poor mans crust, Better the blessing of the poor, Though I turn me empty from his door; That… — James Russell Lowell 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
Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money that you yourself worked to get. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The fortune my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the… — Ayn Rand 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
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
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
Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . . — John Vianney 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
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
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
Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
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
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
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
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
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
Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, himself, his hungering neighbor and me. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Do not complain then of your poverty, my daughter, - we only complain of that which is unwelcome, and if poverty is… — Saint Francis de Sales 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
