Believe in God and his apostle, and bestow in alms of that whereof God hath made you heirs: for whoever among you believe and give alms-their's shall be a great recompense.
And when it is said to them, Give almsof what God hath bestowed on you,12 they who believe not say to the believers, "Shall we feed him whom God can feed if He will?
Ye shall never attain to goodness till ye give alms of that which ye love; and whatever ye give, of a truth God knoweth it.
Do ye hesitate togive alms previously to your private conference?
Sir 7:10 Be not fainthearted when thou makest thy prayer, and neglect not to give alms.
Tob 4:7 Give alms of thy substance; and when thou givest alms, let not thine eye be envious, neither turn thy face from any poor, and the face of God shall not be turned away from thee.
It is better to give alms than to lay up gold: Tob 12:9 For alms doth deliver from death, and shall purge away all sin.
As to persons, a person is not obliged to give alms, if there is no needy person known to him.
But the mere fact that one has a superfluity does not oblige one to give alms.
Interpreted in this sense, a man has no business to give alms out of what is necessary to him; for example, if a man has only enough wherewith to feed himself and his sons or others dependent on him.
To give alms, therefore, out of these is a matter not of precept, but of counsel.
For to give alms out of this would be to deprive himself and his of very life, unless it were indeed for the sake of prolonging the life of someone of extreme importance to Church and State.
Hence it is a matter of precept to give alms to whosoever is in extreme necessity.
Is it better to give alms to those people in their attic, or to give alms to them under the conditions of the almshouse?
Does not true charity consist in refusing to give alms to those who can or may support themselves?
Does not true charity consist in refusing to give alms to those who can, or may, support themselves?
But malice of the will does not depend on the malice of the end intended; since a man who wills to steal in order to give alms, has an evil will, although he intends a good end.
Wherefore if the object of an action includes something in accord with the order of reason, it will be a good action according to its species; for instance, to give alms to a person in want.
Therefore one ought not to give alms in order to receive a spiritual effect.
But some are punished eternally for omitting to give alms, as is clear from Matt.
Accordingly almsgiving can be materially without charity, but to give alms formally, i.
Therefore it is lawful not to give alms: and consequently almsgiving is not a matter of precept.
Accordingly we are bound to give alms of our surplus, as also to give alms to one whose need is extreme; otherwise almsgiving, like any other greater good, is a matter of counsel.
The next question which St. Thomas discusses is whether one ought to give alms out of what one needs.
All were to give alms, even the poor themselves who were in receipt of relief.
The appeal to give alms is constant, but the positive counsel on charitable work is nil.
The Bishops sought to relieve necessitous convents by offering particular inducements to the faithful to give alms, when they were thus requested.
Believe in God and his apostle, and bestow in alms of that whereof God hath made you heirs: for whoever among you believe and give almstheir's shall be a great recompense.
O true believers, make not your alms of none effect by reproaching, or mischief, as he who layeth out what he hath to appear unto men to give alms, and believeth not in GOD and the last day.
O true believers, give alms of that which we have bestowed unto you, before the day cometh wherein there shall be no merchandizing, nor friendship, nor intercession.
Give alms of such things as ye have; and behold, all things are clean unto you.
To give alms, to read the Qurán, to perform other good works, and to apply the merit thus gained to the souls of the dead is a pious and beneficial act.
It is a good thing to give alms--good for yourself, I mean.
Give alms, and be charitable, for these things are necessary to a man.
And the people give because it is a good thing to give alms.
To them that have the benefices and goods of Holy Church,” writes the author, “it belonged principally to give alms and to have the cure of poor people.
If he say, as he does, that it does not appear that they do give alms, I might answer again that they but follow in this the counsel of Christ which says: ‘Let not the left hand see what thy right hand doeth.
And also if we are to call it not giving of alms by them, because other good men have given them the lands from which they give it, from what will you have them give alms?
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "give alms" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
