Alms Quote by Ambrose Download Open image “The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt.” — Ambrose ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alms Almsgiving Debt Doe Gives Poor Giving Man Gives Men Money Pay Pays Debt Poor Rich Rich man Saint Serving others
Do not run into debt with a rich man, or promise anything to a poor one. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The rich man is not one who is in possession of much, but one who gives much. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The rich is the one that rules over those of little means, and the borrower is servant to the man doing the lending. — Solomon Copy Share Image
“That second man has his own way of looking at things; asks himself which debt must I pay first, the debt to the rich,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Debt robs a man of much of the energy and support which he is otherwise able to give to the church and to other… — Stephen L. Richards Copy Share Image
We do not innovate anything ... How is it that novelties are introduced which were never even thought of by our predecessors? — Ambrose Copy Share Image
It is Peter himself that He says, 'You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church.' Where Peter is, there is… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
As a servant desireth the approval of his master, and a son the approval of his father, so should we desire the approval of… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
... the Apostle Peter declared that the Church was built by the Holy Spirit. For you read that he said: 'God, Who knows the… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
If every time the blood is poured out it is poured out for the remission of sins, I ought to receive it always, that… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
The body should be bedecked naturally and without affectation, with simplicity, with neglect rather than nicety, not with costly and dazzling apparel, but with… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
And let them remember that prayer should accompany the reading of Sacred Scripture, so that God and man may talk together; for "we speak… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God. — Ambrose 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 in your… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
In giving alms, let us rather look at the needs of the poor than his claim to your charity. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn 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 onto Christ… — Francis Atterbury 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 leave your… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Alms (is) for the purity of your soul, and flourishment and expansion of your sustenence. — Fatima bint Muhammad 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 and regenerative… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode. — Henry David Thoreau 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 looking for… — Ben Hecht 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 yake; chukua,… — Enock Maregesi 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 like a… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
Walking does good to the fat and giving alms does good to the sinners; these both make one feel lighter! — Mehmet Murat Ildan 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… — Al-Maʿarri 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/img-quotes/915/al-ma-arri-47224_alms_give-a-drink-of-water-as-alms-to-the-bir_171746.jpg)