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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.
The poor should live by alms.
Let us not overlook so great a gain.
Loving words and deeds are the best alms.
To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.
Where there is plenty, charity is a duty, not a courtesy
Give, if thou can, an alms; if not, a sweet and gentle word.
Even a poor man doesn't ask alms unless he sees you have the ability to give.
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. . .
Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money that you yourself worked to get.
At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action.
Also see how many quarters of corn you will spend in a week in dispensable bread, how much in alms.
Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms.
Consider this: alms aside, Wikipedia is fueled by competitive pedantry and emo-ness. How great is that?
Walking does good to the fat and giving alms does good to the sinners; these both make one feel lighter!
There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.
Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.
He once begged alms of a statue, and, when asked why he did so, replied, "To get practice in being refused."
Never have I greater reason for suspicion that when I am particularly pleased with myself, my faith, my progress, and my alms.
There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits.
