Alms Quotes - Page 4

• My body, now close to fifty years of age, has become an old tree that bears bitter peaches, a snail which has lost its shell, a bagworm separated from its bag; it drifts with the winds and clouds that know no destination. Morning and night I have eaten traveler's fare, and have held out for alms a pilgrim's wallet.

  Matsuo Basho

  Morning, Night, Clouds

  "Anthology of Japanese literature". Book by Donald Keene, 1955.

  42 Copy quote

  Show source

• '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

  Mean, Wrath, Giving

  "Me and Rumi: The Autobiography of Shams-I Tabrizi". Book by Shams Tabrizi, translated by William C. Chittick, 2004.

  36 Copy quote

  Show source

• Remain steadfast in the faith; instruct yourself; bridle your tongue; repress your wrath; forbear to do evil; associate with the good; screen the faults of your neighbour; relieve the poor by your alms; and expect your reward in eternity.

  Edouard Rene de Laboulaye

  Wrath, Evil, Rewards

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Indira Gandhi

  Religious, Children, Blessing

  9 Copy quote

• 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.

  James Russell Lowell

  Running, Heart, Blessing

  James Russell Lowell, “The Vision Of Sir Launfal”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Holy Supper is kept, indeed,
  In whatso we share with anothers need;
  Not what we give, but what we share,
  For the gift without the giver is bare;
  Who gives himself with his alms feeds three,
  Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.

  James Russell Lowell

  Giving, Three, Needs

  James Russell Lowell (2012). “The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell, With a Biographical Sketch and Notes, a Portrait and Other Illustrations”, p.46, tredition

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have pleaded (labor's) case, not in the quavering tones of a feeble mendicant asking alms, but in the thundering voice of the captain of a mighty host, demanding the rights to which free men are entitled.

  John L. Lewis

  Men, Rights, Voice

  Speech at United Mine Workers convention at Indianapolis in March 1940. "John L. Lewis: A Biography". Book by Melvyn Dubofsky, p. 278, 1986.

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• Loving words and deeds are the best alms.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Deeds, Loving Words

  11 Copy quote

• We are a material-mad race of people. Build, increase, expand, pile up, hoard! More and more and more. "If we can just make enough money to-to- !" Jesus said: "Sell what ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth."

  Eugenia Price

  Jesus, Race, People

  9 Copy quote

• Of all times, it is Christmas when we must surely realize that there can be no true worship of Him who is the Christ without giving of ourselves. At this season let us, each one, reach out a little more generously in the spirit of the Christ. It is not enough to give toys and baubles. It is not enough to give alms to those in need.... It is also important that we give of ourselves with our alms.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Christmas, Giving, Important

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  William Penn

  School, Government, House

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...”, p.126

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• For the devil may tempt the good, but he cannot find rest in them; for he is shaken violently, and upset, and driven out, now by their prayers, now by their tears of repentance, and now by their almsgiving and similar good works.

  Bruno of Cologne

  Prayer, Upset, Tears

  33 Copy quote

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

  Bruno of Cologne

  Men, Spirit

  15 Copy quote

• 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.

  Richard of Chichester

  Prayer, Pride, Cutting

  55 Copy quote

• The faith of those who live their faith is a serene faith. What you long for will be given you; what you love will be yours for ever. Since it is by giving alms that everything is pure for you, you will also receive that blessing which is promised next by the Lord: the Godhead that no man has been able to see. In the inexpressible joy of this eternal vision, human nature will possess what eye has not seen or ear heard, what man's heart has never conceived.

  Pope Leo I

  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

  13 Copy quote

• 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

  Civilization, Giving, Justice

  1912 'The Personal Service Association: Work for Idle Hands to Do', in The Clarion,13 Dec.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Recollections of the past and visions of the present come to bear me company; the meanest man to whom I have ever given alms appears, to add his mite of peace and comfort to my stock; and whenever the fire within me shall grow cold, to light my path upon this earth no more, I pray that it may be at such an hour as this, and when I love the world as well as I do now.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Past, Men

  Charles Dickens (2017). “CHARLES DICKENS – The Complete Short Stories: 190+ Christmas Tales, Social Sketches, Tales for Children & Other Stories (Illustrated): A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Battle of Life, The Haunted Man, Sketches by Boz, Mudfog Papers, Reprinted Pieces, Pearl-Fishing, Christmas Stories, Child's Dream of a Star, Holiday Romance…”, p.1176, e-artnow

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Let us not make the poor our friends by our alms, not our enemies by our scorns. We had better have the ears of God full of their prayers, than heaps of money in our own coffers with their curses.

  Thomas Adams

  Prayer, Enemy, Ears

  Thomas Adams (1848). “An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter”, p.351

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Giving, Charity, Natural

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.947, Library of Alexandria

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Stefan Zweig

  Heart, Doors, Long

  6 Copy quote

• 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.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Cheer, Spring, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.232, Xist Publishing

  56 Copy quote

  Show source

• The greatest saint in the world is not he who prays most or fasts most; it is not he who gives alms, or is most eminent for temperance, chastity or justice. It is he who is most thankful to God.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Thankful To God

  9 Copy quote

• 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.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Character, College, Fund

  4 Copy quote

• The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Men, Naked, Citizens

  "The Spirit of the Laws". Book by Baron de Montesquieu, Book XXIII: Of Laws in the Relation They Bear to the Number of Inhabitants, Ch. 29: Of Hospitals, 1748.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Thus Gotama [Buddha] walked toward the town to gather alms, and the two samanas recognized him solely by the perfection of his repose, by the calmness of his figure, in which there was no trace of seeking, desiring, imitating, or striving, only light and peace

  Hermann Hesse

  Light, Two, Perfection

  29 Copy quote