Alms Quotes
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We may cover a multitude of sins with the white robe of charity.
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He who has been impoverished for a long timewho has long stood before the door of the mighty in darkness and begged for alms,has filled his heart with bitterness so that it resembles a sponge full of gall; he knows about the injustice and folly of all human action and sometimes his lips tremble with rage and a stifled scream.
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The poor should live by alms.
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Let us not overlook so great a gain.
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For when the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through places without water, seeking rest; and not finding. . .
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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.
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To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.
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Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and undeserving?
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Alms are an inheritance and a justice which is due to the poor and which Jesus has levied upon us.
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The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.
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A woman who loves her husband is merely paying her bills. A woman who loves her lover gives alms to the poor.
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It's more blessed to give than to receive - especially kittens.
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Better to me the poor mans crust, Better the blessing of the poor, Though I turn me empty from his door; That is no true alms which the hand can hold; He gives nothing but worthless gold Who gives from a sense of duty; But he who gives a slender mite, And gives to that which is out of sight, That thread of the all-sustaining Beauty Which runs through all and doth all unite, - The hand cannot clasp the whole of his alms, The heart outstretches its eager palms, For a god goes with it and makes it store To the soul that was starving in darkness before.
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Loving words and deeds are the best alms.
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The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
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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?
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The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode.
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The gift without the giver is rare.
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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.
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For if you change from inhumanity to alms giving, you have stretched fourth the hand that was withered. If you withdraw from theaters and go to church, you have cured the lame foot. If you draw back your eyes from a harlot ... you have opened them when they were blind ... These are the greatest miracles.
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Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, himself, his hungering neighbor and me.
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Yes, my dear children, everything is good and precious in God's sight when we act from the motives of religion and of charity because Jesus Christ tells us that a glass of water would not go unrewarded. You see, therefore, my children, that although we may be quite poor, we can still easily give alms.
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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.
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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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A trader does not squander his body as fodder or his soul as alms.
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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.
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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.
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The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt.
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There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.
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A friar who asks alms for God's sake begs for two.
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