Alms Quotes

Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.

James Russell Lowell

Friendship, Thank You, Giving

James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.122

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

Owen Feltham

Charity, Courtesy, Duty

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We must give alms. Charity wins souls and draws them to virtue.

Angela Merici

Winning, Giving, Soul

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To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

John Ruskin

Giving, Literature

John Ruskin (2015). “Lectures on Architecture and Painting”, p.66, John Ruskin

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Give, if thou can, an alms; if not, a sweet and gentle word.

Robert Herrick

Sweet, Giving, Gentle

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One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Eye, Hands, Giving

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Alms are an inheritance and a justice which is due to the poor and which Jesus has levied upon us.

Francis of Assisi

Jesus, Justice, Saint

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

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Giving, Charity, Needs

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Almsgiving above all else requires money, but even this shines with a brighter luster when the alms are given from our poverty. The widow who paid in the two mites was poorer than any human, but she outdid them all.

Saint John Chrysostom

Two, Shining, Widows

Saint John Chrysostom, Paul William Harkins (1963). “Baptismal Instructions”, p.185, Paulist Press

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We may cover a multitude of sins with the white robe of charity.

Henry Ward Beecher

White, Charity, May

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The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt.

Ambrose

Men, Giving, Doe

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Let us also love our neighbors as ourselves. Let us have charity and humility. Let us give alms because these cleanse our souls from the stains of sin. Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.

Francis of Assisi

Humility, Men, Giving

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By our little acts of charity practiced in the shade we convert souls far away, we help missionaries, we win for them abundant alms; and by that means build actual dwellings spiritual and material for our Eucharistic Lord.

Therese of Lisieux

Spiritual, Mean, Winning

St. Therese of Lisieux (1915). “Thoughts of Saint Thérèse”, p.20, TAN Books

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As far as you can, do some manual work so as to be able to give alms, for it is written that alms and faith purify from sin.

Poemen

Giving, Able, Sin

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Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others... And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

Walt Whitman

Love, Inspirational, Crazy

Walt Whitman (1953). “The best of Whitman”

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To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.

Edmund Burke

Men, Independence, Welfare

Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondance of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.237

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Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back
Wherein he puts alms for oblivion,
A great-sized monster of ingratitudes:
Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd
As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

Time, Past, Monsters

'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 3, sc. 3, l. 145

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But what if I should discover that the least amongst them all, the poorest of all beggars, the most impudent of all offenders, yea the very fiend himself— that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I myself am the enemy who must be loved— what then?

Carl Jung

Kindness, What If, Enemy

"Psychology and religion: west and east".

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It's more blessed to give than to receive - especially kittens.

Bill Cosby

Bible, Jesus, Blessed

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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.

Khalil Gibran

Love, Inspirational, Motivational

Prophet (1923) "On Work"

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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 Himself.

Francis Atterbury

Men, Good Man, Sake

Francis ATTERBURY (Bishop of Rochester.) (1740). “Sermons and Discourses on several Subjects and Occasions”

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And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

Walt Whitman

Leaves Of Grass, Flesh, Fluency

Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity i am bought and sold; for them i will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots; and the thousandfold Relief Societies; - though i confess with shame i sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by i shall have the manhood to withhold.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Spiritual, College, Class

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.12, Penguin

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I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.

Ben Hecht

Men, Envy, Guilt

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Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms.

William Beveridge

Blessing, Generosity, Proportion

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