Alms Quotes - page 2

The fortune my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of the spirit. I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom. (Ayn Rand)
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. View quote
John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge
To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty. View quote
Edmund Burke
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. View quote
Rebecca West
Also see how many quarters of corn you will spend in a week in dispensable bread, how much in alms. View quote
Robert Grosseteste
A person's ears get glorified by listening to scriptures and not by wearing ear-rings, hands are adorned by giving alms to the poor and not by wearing bracelets. View quote
Bhartrihari
What if I should discover that the poorest of the beggars and the most impudent of offenders are all within me; and that I stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I, myself, am the enemy who must be loved -- what then? View quote
Carl Jung
There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye. View quote
John W. Campbell
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. View quote
James Russell Lowell
Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me. View quote
James Russell Lowell
Music has a natural place in our lives. Right from the shloka you recite in your morning puja and the milkman who comes whistling on his cycle, to the fakir singing as he begs for alms and your mother humming around the kitchen...Music fills our spaces naturally. It will always be dear to us. (Gulzar)
Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give no bounties make equal laws secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give, if thou can, an alms; if not, a sweet and gentle word. View quote
Robert Herrick (poet)
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. View quote
Charles Dickens
One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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. View quote
Walter Benjamin
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. View quote
William Shakespeare
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. View quote
John Chrysostom
When you lie, you lie to God; when you steal, you steal from God; when you have hatred for someone, you have hatred for God; when you don't honor your parents, you don't honor God; when you are jealous, you are jealous of God; when you begrudge alms to the poor, you begrudge recompense to God; when you plot evil, you plot it against God; when you work evil, you work evil against God. View quote
Nikolaj Velimirovic
There are many poor men and poor women: set apart some one constantly to remain there: let the poor man be though but as a guard to thy house: let him be to thee wall and fence, shield and spear. Where alms are, the devil dares not approach, nor any other evil thing. (John Chrysostom)
Nothing like alms: great is the virtue of this practice, when the alms is poured forth from pure stores; for it is like a fountain discharging mud, when it issues from unjust stores, but when from just gains, it is as a limpid and pure stream... This fountain is better than that in Paradise (Genesis 2:10); a fountain, not dividing into four heads, but reaching unto Heaven itself: this gives birth to that river which springs up into eternal life (John 4:14): on this let Death light, and like a spark it is extinguished by the fountain: such, wherever it drops, are the mighty blessings it causes. This quenches, even as a spark, the river of fire: this so strangles that worm, as naught else can do. (Mark 9:44) He that has this, shall not gnash his teeth... Better to possess such a fountain, than to have fountains running with gold. View quote
John Chrysostom