Best Almsgiving Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“But one should have pity for the poor, and, for God’s sake, show them friendship, because they are flesh just as we are, our fellow women and men. And God himself commands us to do it and proclaims it in Scripture: “Blessed be he who does good for them and who will offer them alms!”

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Book:The Book of the Mutability of Fortune (Volume 52)

Source: The Book of the Mutability of Fortune (Volume 52)

“Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance.”

Men Individual Respect Worthy Aids Grievance Almsgiving

Author:Evita Peron

“The bread you store up belongs to the hungry; the cloak that lies in your chest belongs to the naked; the gold you have hidden in the ground belongs to the poor.”

Lying Poor Gold Saint Stores Hungry Bread Naked Chests Serving Others Cloaks Almsgiving

Author:Saint Basil

“He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving.”

Littles Virtue Abstract Preaching Almsgiving

Book:Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished

Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished

“On the other hand, Allah directs man to the spiritual purity through the act of giving that is represented by charity that the pious pays as "Zakat" and "Sadakat" almsgiving, and other financial obligations.”

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Author:Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

“Neither the individual nor the race is improved by almsgiving. The best means of benefiting the community is to place within its reach the ladders upon which the aspiring can rise.”

Mean Individual Community Race Ladders Almsgiving

Book:The Andrew Carnegie reader

Source: The Andrew Carnegie reader

“The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God.”

Christian Spirit Holy Aim Christian Life Holy Spirit Orthodox Acquisition Spirit Of God Almsgiving

Author:Seraphim of Sarov

“Our prayers and fastings are of less avail, unless they are aided by almsgiving.”

Prayer Our Prayers Fasting Prayer And Fasting Almsgiving

Book:Treatises (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 36)

Source: Treatises (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 36)

“All almsgiving inevitably tends to pauperize the recipient.”

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Book:Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist

Source: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist

“Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.”

Poor Levels Rich Raises Charity Aids Needy Almsgiving

Author:Evita Peron

“The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt.”

Men Giving Doe Poor Pay Rich Saint Debt Serving Others Rich Man Alms Almsgiving

Author:Ambrose

“The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God. As for fasts, and vigils, and prayer, and almsgiving, and every good deed done for Christ's sake, they are only means of acquiring the Holy Spirit of God.”

Mean Done Christian Spirit Christ Prayer Holy Aim Very Good Sake Saint Deeds Christian Life Holy Spirit Good Deeds Acquisition Serving Others Spirit Of God Deeds Done Almsgiving

Author:Seraphim of Sarov

“Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all”

Doe Poor Poverty Aids Ending Poverty Almsgiving

Author:Evita Peron

“Prayer, fasting, vigils, and all other Christian practices, however good they may be in themselves, certainly do not constitute the aim of our Christian life: they are but the indispensable means of attaining that aim. For the true aim of the Christian life is the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God. As for fasts, vigils, prayer and almsgiving, and other good works done in the name of Christ, they are only the means of acquiring the Holy Spirit of God. Note well that it is only good works done in the name of Christ that bring us the fruits of the Spirit.”

“The Most Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that none of those existing outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans, also Jews, heretics, and schismatics can ever be partakers of eternal life, but that they are to go into the eternal fire 'which was prepared for the devil and his angels' (Mt. 25:41) unless before death they are joined with Her... No one, let his almsgiving be as great as it may, no one, even if he pour out his blood for the Name of Christ can be saved unless they abide within the bosom and unity of the Catholic Church.”

Ifs Believe May Names Christ Church Fire Blood Holy Eternal Devil Angel Catholic Salvation Unity Prepared Jew Saved Eternal Life Bosoms Catholic Church Pagan Heretic Before Death Almsgiving

Author:Pope Eugene IV

“Almsgiving, according to the Gospel, is not mere philanthropy; rather it is a concrete expression of charity, a theological virtue that demands interior conversion to love of God and neighbor, in imitation of Jesus Christ, who, dying on the cross, gave his entire self for us.”

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Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“In the matter of piety, poverty serves us better than wealth, and work better than idleness, especially since wealth becomes an obstacle even for those who do not devote themselves to it.”

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Book:Baptismal Instructions

Source: Baptismal Instructions

“Yet, when we must put aside our wrath, quench our envy, soften our anger, offer our prayers, and show a disposition which is reasonable, mild, kindly, and loving, how could poverty stand in our way? For we accomplish these things not by spending money but by making the correct choice.”

Way Shows Choices Prayer Poverty Offers Accomplish Spending Envy Reasonable Disposition Wrath Our Prayers Alms Spending Money Quench Almsgiving

Author:Saint John Chrysostom

“Almsgiving above all else requires money, but even this shines with a brighter luster when the alms are given from our poverty. The widow who paid in the two mites was poorer than any human, but she outdid them all.”

Humans Two Given Poverty Paid Shining Brighter Widows Alms Luster Almsgiving

Book:Baptismal Instructions

Source: Baptismal Instructions

“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.”

May Prayer Tears Devil Driven Upset Repentance Good Work Alms Almsgiving

Author:Bruno of Cologne

“Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance. Almsgiving is the generosity of the rich; social aid levels up social inequalities. Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.”

Men Doe Individual Social Poor Levels Poverty Rich Raises Charity Worthy Aids Inequality Generosity Needy Grievance Social Inequality Almsgiving

Author:Evita Peron