Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money that you yourself worked to get. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . . — John Vianney 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
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
All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
People do not care to give alms without some security for their money; and a wooden leg or a withered arm is… — Henry Mackenzie 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
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
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
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
Have you been working on Sunday? Have you been buying or selling without necessity in the course of this holy day? Give… — John Vianney 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
![“Give a drink of water as alms to the birds which go forth at morning, and deem that they have a better right than men [to thy charity]. For their race brings not harm upon thee in any wise, when thou fearest it from thine own race.” quote by Al-Maʿarri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/915/al-ma-arri-47224_alms_give-a-drink-of-water-as-alms-to-the-bir_171746.jpg)
