To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.
Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.
Also see how many quarters of corn you will spend in a week in dispensable bread how much in alms.
There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another either a smile a handshake or a fond eye.
Where there is plenty charity is a duty not a courtesy
I do not give alms; I am not poor enough for that.
We may cover a multitude of sins with the white robe of charity.
To drive men from independence to live on alms is itself great cruelty.
When thou doest alms let not thy left hand know what they right hand doeth.
Alms (is) for the purity of your soul and flourishment and expansion of your sustenence.
The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt.
Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand.
Alms are an inheritance and a justice which is due to the poor and which Jesus has levied upon us.
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.
Are we not to pity and supply the poor though they have no relation to us? No relation? That cannot be. The Gospel styles them all our brethren.
Alms in secret extinguish the wrath of the Lord means you are so immersed in sincerity and in preserving that sincerity that you have no pleasure in giving alms.
In the matter of piety poverty serves us better than wealth and work better than idleness especially since wealth becomes an obstacle even for those who do not devote themselves to it.
If you disclose your alms even then it is well done but if you keep them secret and give them to the poor then that is better still for you;?and this wipes off from you some of your evil deeds.
The poor should live by alms.
The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.
Loving words and deeds are the best alms.
A friar who asks alms for God's sake begs for two.
We must give alms. Charity wins souls and draws them to virtue.
Give if thou can an alms; if not a sweet and gentle word.
A trader does not squander his body as fodder or his soul as alms.
Who gives himself with his alms feeds three himself his hungering neighbor and me.
My life should be unique; it should be an alms a battle a conquest a medicine.
Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money that you yourself worked to get.
In giving alms let us rather look at the needs of the poor than his claim to your charity.
Let us proportion our alms to our ability lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms.
The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
Walking does good to the fat and giving alms does good to the sinners; these both make one feel lighter!
At a certain point I just felt you know God is not looking for alms God is looking for action.
To steale the Hog and give the feet for almes. [To steal the hog and give the feet to alms.]
He once begged alms of a statue and when asked why he did so replied "To get practice in being refused.
So ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give.
I pray like a robber asking alms at the door of a farmhouse to which he is ready to set fire.
A woman who loves her husband is merely paying her bills. A woman who loves her lover gives alms to the poor.
Never have I greater reason for suspicion that when I am particularly pleased with myself my faith my progress and my alms.
He who feels that the vice of avarice has got hold of him should not wish to observe fasts of supererogation but to give alms.
For myself I think that one wrong does not right the other and forgiveness cannot be won with useless tears or alms to the Church.
Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages.
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.
A spiritual prayer is a humble prayer. Prayer is the asking of an alms which requires humility... The lower the heart descends the higher the prayer ascends.
To bear many children is considered not only a religious blessing but also an investment. The greater their number some Indians reason the more alms they can beg.
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.
Were the superfluities of a nation valued and made a perpetual tax or benevolence there would be more alms-houses than poor schools than scholars and enough to spare for government besides.
Satisfaction consists in the cutting off of the causes of the sin. Thus fasting is the proper antidote to lust; prayer to pride to envy anger and sloth; alms to covetousness.
If we should be saved and become saints we ought always to stand at the gates of the Divine mercy to beg and pray for as an alms all that we need.
there is less alms-giving in America than in any other Christian country on the face of the globe. It is not in the temper of the people either to give or to receive.
You'd be surprised how difficult it is to ask alms of a stranger when you've never done it before what a psychological barrier separates the honest man from the panhandler. (Dusk To Dawn)
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.
Have you been working on Sunday? Have you been buying or selling without necessity in the course of this holy day? Give to the poor some alms which will exceed the profit you have made.