Top 34 Alms Giving Quotes
#1. 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.
Frances Trollope
#2. If some stock categories get too hot-and-pricey, mass supply is created via stock offerings to tap that cheap money - and, when overdone, drives it all down.
Kenneth Fisher
#4. I'd love to do live-action superheroes. And you know, I boxed for several years. I have some martial arts experience.
Josh Keaton
#5. 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.
Philip Neri
#6. To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes.
[To steal the hog, and give the feet to alms.]
George Herbert
#7. 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.
Muhammad
#8. Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another.
Antony Sher
#9. 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.
John Vianney
#10. The past was just a place where uncontrolled freaks you had never consciously decided to include in your life entered it anyway and staggered around, breaking things.
Alexandra Kleeman
#11. Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#12. the belief in one God; namaz, or prayers five times a day; giving zakat, or alms; roza, fasting from dawn till sunset during the month of Ramadan; and Haj, the pilgrimage to Mecca, which every able-bodied Muslim should do once in their lifetime.
Malala Yousafzai
#13. Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money that you yourself worked to get.
Leo Tolstoy
#14. Give, if thou can, an alms; if not, a sweet and gentle word.
Robert Herrick
#15. Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back ...
John Vianney
#16. 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.
John Vianney
#18. We must give alms. Charity wins souls and draws them to virtue.
Angela Merici
#19. At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby. It is humility with a comb-over. It is Nielsen ratings and Barnum's axiom and the real bottom line. It is big, big business.
David Foster Wallace
#20. Walking does good to the fat and giving alms does good to the sinners; these both make one feel lighter!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#21. All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate.
Walter Benjamin
#22. In giving of thy alms, inquire not so much into the person, as his necessity. God looks not so much upon the merits of him that requires, as into the manner of him that relieves; if the man deserve not, thou hast given it to humanity.
Francis Quarles
#25. People do not care to give alms without some security for their money; and a wooden leg or a withered arm is a sort of draft upon heaven for those who choose to have their money placed to account there.
Henry MacKenzie
#26. 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.
Rebecca West
#27. The comedians I liked were Bill Cosby and Steven Wright, like just always as a comedic actor. I always liked Gary Larson, who's really funny for a cartoonist, obviously.
Demetri Martin
#28. The record company doesn't know what to do with me, because I'm not a Lily Allen, but I'm not really an indie artist, either. All the best artists have been in the middle.
Bat For Lashes
#29. 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.
Shams Tabrizi
#30. As adults our life is reduced to giving alms to others and receiving them in return. We squander our personalities in orgies of coexistence.
Fernando Pessoa
#31. The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt.
Ambrose
#32. 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
#33. Non-knowing is not a form of ignorance but a difficult transcendence of knowledge. This is the price that must be paid for an oeuvre to be, at all times, a sort of pure beginning, which makes its creation an exercise in freedom.
Jean Lescure
#34. In giving alms, let us rather look at the needs of the poor than his claim to your charity.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
