Alms Quotes

He once begged alms of a statue, and, when asked why he did so, replied, "To get practice in being refused."

If you are attached to the things of this earth, you should give alms sufficient to enable you to punish your avarice by depriving yourself of all that is not absolutely necessary for life.

The poor should live by alms.

For the unclean spirit enters easily into a man, and easily goes out from him.

Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .

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

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

At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action.

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

Loving words and deeds are the best alms.

Let us not overlook so great a gain.

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

Never have I greater reason for suspicion that when I am particularly pleased with myself, my faith, my progress, and my alms.

Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money that you yourself worked to get.

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

The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.

If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.

Fellows of colleges in the universities are in one sense the recipients of alms, because they receive funds which originally were of an eleemosynary character.