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Alms Quotes by John Vianney
- If you are attached to the things of this earth, you should give alms sufficient to enable you to punish your avarice by depriving yourself…
- Have you been working on Sunday? Have you been buying or selling without necessity in the course of this holy day? Give to the poor…
- Others will give away large alms in order to be considered charitable people. Should they not give these out of their own wages, which so…
- Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
- Yes, my dear children, everything is good and precious in God's sight when we act from the motives of religion and of charity because Jesus…
More Alms Quotes
- There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond… — Lord Acton
- Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give… — Rebecca West
- The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt. — Ambrose
- Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 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
- 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
- One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal… — Walter Benjamin