Alms Quote by Leon Bloy Download Open image “I pray like a robber asking alms at the door of a farmhouse to which he is ready to set fire.” — Leon Bloy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alms Asking Doors Fire I pray Prayer Praying Ready Robbers
I don't just pray for God to open doors, I also pray for God to close doors. — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
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Many of us in our praying are like nasty little boys who ring front door bells and run away before anyone answers. — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
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To pray is nothing more involved than to open the door, giving Jesus access to our needs and permitting Him to exercise His own… — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
“Don't blame me for you robbing the king's treasury!" I snarled. "You are here because you messed up." "I prayed to you!" "Well, perhaps… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Most of us wait until we're in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we'd wake… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“If you look at your prayers, ninety-five percent of the prayers in the world are all about either asking for something, fundamentally asking for… — Sadhguru Copy Share Image
I don't pray. When I was young, I vowed I never would be caught begging God. If I want something I get it for… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be. — Leon Bloy Copy Share Image
Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering, in order that they may have existence. — Leon Bloy Copy Share Image
Love does not make you weak, because it is the source of all strength, but it makes you see the nothingness of the illusory… — Leon Bloy Copy Share Image
“I shall become as complete a stranger as the unknown drama sleeping in the limbo of a novelist’s imagination” — Léon Bloy Copy Share Image
“The worst evil is not to commit crimes, but to fail to do the good one might have done.” — Leon Bloy Copy Share Image
The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint. — Leon Bloy Copy Share Image
“One had, in any case, a bag full of fruits that resemble stars, picked by the handful in the luminous forest ...” — Léon Bloy 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