Alms Quote by Philip Neri

“I wish I had a someone who would observe me silently, who would capture all my habits and quirks, and still love me. Someone…

— Elay Neal Moses

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

Are we not to pity and supply the poor, though they have no relation to us? No relation? That cannot be. The Gospel styles…

— Thomas Sprat

Where there is plenty, charity is a duty, not a courtesy

— Owen Feltham

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

Walking does good to the fat and giving alms does good to the sinners; these both make one feel lighter!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“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

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

The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

Alms (is) for the purity of your soul, and flourishment and expansion of your sustenence.

— Fatima bint Muhammad

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

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

In giving alms, let us rather look at the needs of the poor than his claim to your charity.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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