How To Use Almsgiving In A Sentence
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With its emphasis on prayer, fasting, and almsgiving, Lent is a time when we are invited to leave our controlled and comfortable environment and enter a place of emptiness and need.
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When you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right is doing, so that your almsgiving may be secret.
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One dimension of Lent that tends to get pushed to the side is the practice of almsgiving.
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They forgot that God was actually the beginning and end of all their prayer, fasting and almsgiving - and began to see the world revolving round themselves.
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Welsh kings and lesser lords did participate in an expensive and conspicuously pious practice: they employed what wealth they had on extravagant almsgiving.
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Provision of help or relief to the poor; almsgiving.
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Venial sins were to be cleansed by daily use of the Lord's Prayer and by almsgiving.
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Compassion is at least as key in education as in almsgiving.
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Constitutional lawsuit is the prerequisite of human rights judicial almsgiving.
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The Lenten practice of almsgiving thus becomes a means to deepen our Christian vocation.
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Moreover, no longer contented with simple almsgiving, they requested teaching the almsman technical skill.
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He was a regular observer of religious rites, took great pains to secure decorum in the services of the church, and was generous in almsgiving both within his empire and without.
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The widow Sofia pleased God with her prayers, fasting, and almsgiving.
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Charity - the Koranic precept of almsgiving - was unforced and natural.
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Another religion that places unordinate weight on physical almsgiving is the Muslim one, you can see to congregate beggars at the entrance of the mosque regulating among themselves the charity facilitating business.
Why Does Homelessness Persist in Rich Liberal Cities?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Constitutional lawsuit is the prerequisite of human rights judicial almsgiving.
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For the holy month culminates in a prescribed annual almsgiving, amounting to a tax on one's wealth and property, to be distributed in the coming year to those in need.
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[3945] Matt.xix. 17, 18, etc. [3946] Harvey here remarks: "In a theological point of view, it should be observed, that no saving merit is ascribed to almsgiving: it is spoken of here as the negation of the vice of covetousness, which is wholly inconsistent with the state of salvation to which we are called.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
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He was in charge of the care of church property and almsgiving.
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This offering made by fire is here said to be of a sweet savour unto the Lord; and so are our spiritual offerings, which are made by the fire of holy love, particularly that of almsgiving, which is said to be an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well pleasing to God
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy)
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If the heart is not inspired by sincerity in bestowing alms then almsgiving becomes mere display.
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Of all forms of indiscriminate almsgiving, that is the most offensive and most worthless, and they knew it, or they would not have sent me a wheedling invitation to come and inspect their “relief work,” offering to have a carriage take me around.
The Making of an American
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Of all forms of indiscriminate almsgiving, that is the most offensive and most worthless, and they knew it, or they would not have sent me a wheedling invitation to come and inspect their relief work, offering to have a carriage take me around.
Roosevelt comes—Mulberry Street’s Golden Age
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There are three traditional focuses for our Lenten observance and they are prayer, fasting and almsgiving.
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My religion places great weight in almsgiving, and my daughter makes me walk blocks till we find a suitable beggar to fulfil our mitzvah.
Why Does Homelessness Persist in Rich Liberal Cities?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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The community had to see, in public weeping, prayer, fasting, and almsgiving, clear symbols of repentance so that the reclamation of the individual could be entire.
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He encouraged devotion to the Host as well as daily almsgiving.
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The spiritual practices of almsgiving, prayer, and fasting are to move us closer to God, not farther from each other.
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On the other hand, Jesus points out that if believers faithfully practice almsgiving, prayer, and fasting then an unstated heavenly reward awaits them.
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An added bad intention (such as vainglory) makes an act evil that, in and of itself, can be good (such as almsgiving) (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1752-1753)
Justification by Faith, or Faith and Works
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He encouraged devotion to the Host as well as daily almsgiving.
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Mrs. Walter Powell sometimes ventured to take Aurora to task on the folly and sinfulness of what she called indiscriminate almsgiving; but Mrs. Mellish would pour such a flood of eloquence upon her antagonist that the ensign's widow was always glad to retire from the unequal contest.
Aurora Floyd. A Novel
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It is easy to see religious motivations here in terms of imperatives to care for the unfortunate; 'almsgiving' is undoubtedly a strong theme in most faith traditions.
New Perspectives on Faith and Development
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His righteousness, that is, his almsgiving, endureth for ever.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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And for one in afflictions to give thanks looseth his sins; and almsgiving, which is greater than all.
NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians
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The spiritual man also judges by approving what is right and reproving what he finds amiss in the works and morals of the faithful, such as in their almsgiving, which is signified by the phrase, "The earth bringing forth its fruit.
Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler
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Of all forms of indiscriminate almsgiving, that is the most offensive and most worthless, and they knew it, or they would not have sent me a wheedling invitation to come and inspect their "relief work," offering to have a carriage take me around.
The Making of an American
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After Richard's death in 1199, Berengaria lived on her dower lands at Le Mans, France, where she was famed for her almsgiving.
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Surrounding the controlling of the poor, there was a great change in Tudor poor laws: punishment gave the way to discriminative almsgiving, poor law gradually became rational.
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In this theater almsgiving is rewarded by trumpet fanfare, prayer is a public parade, and the discomfort of fasting is a spectacle.
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Of course, there are other forms of almsgiving than money, such as time and talent.
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Lenten practice commonly falls into three parts: prayer, penance and that care for others we call charity, or almsgiving.
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