Alms Quotes · Page 2

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

— John Ruskin

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

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action.

— Bono

I pray like a robber asking alms at the door of a farmhouse to which he is ready to set fire.

— Leon Bloy

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

— Fatima bint Muhammad

Consider this: alms aside, Wikipedia is fueled by competitive pedantry and emo-ness. How great is that?

— Mary H.K. Choi

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

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, himself, his hungering neighbor and me.

— James Russell Lowell

To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes. [To steal the hog, and give the feet to alms.]

— George Herbert

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

A spiritual prayer is a humble prayer. Prayer is the asking of an alms, which requires humility... The lower the heart descends,…

— Thomas Watson

There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so…

— Maxim Gorky

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

So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The fortune my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the…

— Ayn Rand

To bear many children is considered not only a religious blessing but also an investment. The greater their number, some Indians reason,…

— Indira Gandhi

In the matter of piety, poverty serves us better than wealth, and work better than idleness, especially since wealth becomes an obstacle…

— Saint John Chrysostom

The faith of those who live their faith is a serene faith. What you long for will be given you; what you…

— Pope Leo I

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

“Beggars, especially noble beggars, should never show themselves in the street; they should ask for alms through the newspapers. It's still possible…

— Anonymous

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

— Charles Spurgeon

Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance…

— Buddha

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

The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man; insomuch, that if it issue not towards men, it will…

— John Locke

“He had ceased to believe in the efficacy of alms; it was not sufficient that one should be charitable, henceforth one must…

— Émile Zola

This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks,…

— Walt Whitman

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

The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.

— John Donne

A trader does not squander his body as fodder or his soul as alms.

— John Galt

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

For the unclean spirit enters easily into a man, and easily goes out from him.

— Bruno of Cologne

Alms are an inheritance and a justice which is due to the poor and which Jesus has levied upon us.

— Francis of Assisi

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

— Henry David Thoreau

We must give alms. Charity wins souls and draws them to virtue.

— Angela Merici

Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms.

— William Beveridge

If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He once begged alms of a statue, and, when asked why he did so, replied, "To get practice in being refused."

— Diogenes

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what they right hand doeth.

— Matthew McConaughey