Almsgiving Quote by Cyprian Download Open image “Our prayers and fastings are of less avail, unless they are aided by almsgiving.” — Cyprian ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Almsgiving Fasting Our prayers Prayer Prayer and fasting
Prayer carries us half way to God, fasting brings us to the door of His palace, and alms-giving procures us admission. — Quran Copy Share Image
Let us resolve by God's grace, that however poor and feeble our prayers may seem to be, we will pray on. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Let us resolve by God's grace that, however feeble and poor our prayers may seem to us, we will pray on. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
For our hearts are enfeebled by prosperity, so that we cannot make the effort to pray. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Our hearts are enfeebled by PROSPERITY so that we cannot make an effort to pray. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The wretched bodies of the condemned shall simmer and blaze in those living fires. — Cyprian Copy Share Image
Knowing that there is one Baptism, we who hold the head and root of the One Church know for certain that to him who… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
It is a bad world, Donatus, an incredibly bad world. But I have discovered in the midst of it a quiet and good people… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
"If any man thirst, let him come and drink from the rivers of living water" (cf. John 7:38). Where shall he who thirsts come?… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
For the helmsman is recognized in the tempest; in the warfare the soldier is proved. — Cyprian Copy Share Image
Murder, considered a crime when people commit it singly, is transformed into a virtue when they do it en masse. — Cyprian Copy Share Image
Men imitate the gods whom they adore, and to such miserable beings their crimes become their religion. — Cyprian Copy Share Image
The world is going mad in mutual extermination, and murder, considered as a crime when committed individually, becomes a virtue when it is committed… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
As to what pertains to the case of infants: You [Fidus] said that they ought not to be baptized within the second or third… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
Be constantly committed to prayer or to reading [Scripture]; by praying, you speak to God, in reading, God speaks to you. — Cyprian Copy Share Image
If a murder is committed privately it is considered a crime. But if it happens with the authority of the state, they call it… — Cyprian 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 is reasonable,… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid… — Evita Peron 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. The widow… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God. — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
On the other hand, Allah directs man to the spiritual purity through the act of giving that is represented by charity that the pious… — Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah Copy Share Image
In the matter of piety, poverty serves us better than wealth, and work better than idleness, especially since wealth becomes an obstacle even for… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Almsgiving, according to the Gospel, is not mere philanthropy; rather it is a concrete expression of charity, a theological virtue that demands interior conversion… — Pope Benedict XVI 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 driven out,… — Bruno of Cologne Copy Share Image
The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God. As for fasts, and vigils, and prayer,… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
Neither the individual nor the race is improved by almsgiving. The best means of benefiting the community is to place within its reach the… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
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