Alms Quote by Owen Feltham Download Open image “Where there is plenty, charity is a duty, not a courtesy” — Owen Feltham ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alms Charity Courtesy Duty Generosity Plenty Responsibility
Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often; but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom honored. — Ouida Copy Share Image
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Charity is a fine thing if it's meeting a gap where needs must be met and there are no other resources. But in the… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
There are people in need of help. Charity is one of the nobler human motivations. The act of reaching into one's own pockets to… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
There is no dearth of charity in the world in giving, but there is comparatively little exercised in thinking and speaking. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
“ Charity begins at home. Was that a narrow, selfish adage or was it simply an inescapable, bedrock fact of life in human society?… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
The boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale our guardian angel quits his charge of us. — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
Of all trees, I observe God hath chosen the vine, a low plant that creeps upon the helpful wall; of all beasts, the soft and patient lamb; of all fowls, the mild and guileless dove. Christ is the rose of the field, and the lily of the valley. When God appeared to Moses, it was not in the lofty cedar… — Owen Feltham Copy Share
To go to law is for two persons to kindle a fire, at their own cost, to warm others and singe themselves to cinders;… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
Fear, if it be not immoderate, puts a guard about us that does watch and defend us; but credulity keeps us naked, and lays… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
Meditation is the soul's perspective glass, whereby, in her long remove, she discerneth God, as if He were nearer at hand. — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
Truth and fidelity are the pillars of the temple of the world; when these are broken, the fabric falls, and crushes all to pieces. — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them. — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom. — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
Human life has not a surer friend, nor oftentimes a greater enemy, than hope. It is the miserable man's god, which in the hardest… — Owen Feltham 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 work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger.… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share
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, iwapo utakubaliana na masharti hayo. Jambazi akikupa pesa ili ukafanyie ujambazi chukua pia. Lakini hiyo usiipeleke kanisani, ipeleke serikalini. Serikali itajua jinsi ya kupambana na huyo aliyekupa hiyo pesa, na hiyo pesa itaendelea kuimarisha ulinzi na… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share
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)