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Giving with genuine thought

These alms quotes emphasize that real charity requires thought, not just action, echoing the intention behind Give Quotes more broadly.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Man
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Nov 07, 2020

Even a poor man doesn't ask alms unless he sees you have the ability to give.

Quotes by Piyush Goyal

Love
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Nothing
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Nov 07, 2020

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

Quotes by John Ruskin

Nov 07, 2020

There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.

Quotes by John Dalberg-Acton

Men
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Quotes by Francis of Assisi

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Quotes by Ben Hecht

Others connect giving to love itself, arguing work without love is better left behind entirely, a value shared with Love Quotes elsewhere on the site.

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