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
For the unclean spirit enters easily into a man, and easily goes out from him. — Bruno of Cologne 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
Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
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 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“He had ceased to believe in the efficacy of alms; it was not sufficient that one should be charitable, henceforth one must… — Émile Zola 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
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
This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Pesa itolewe kwa masharti au bila masharti chukua, kwani huyo aliyeitoa si yake. Benki, kwa mfano, ikitaka kukupa mkopo itakuwa na masharti… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
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
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should… — Khalil Gibran 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
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
“[Robert's eulogy at his brother, Ebon C. Ingersoll's grave. Even the great orator Robert Ingersoll was choked up with tears at the… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Others will give away large alms in order to be considered charitable people. Should they not give these out of their own… — John Vianney Copy Share Image