Examples of 'alms' in a sentence
Meaning of "alms"
Alms: Charitable gifts, especially given to those in need as an act of compassion
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- Something given to the poor as charity, such as money, clothing or food.
- plural of ALM
- A surname from German.
- Initialism of American Le Mans Series. (an enclosed-wheel enclosed-cockpit four-wheel custom-built prototype sports car racing series)
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I once asked members of my family to aid me in giving of alms to those.
Foreign priests or religious can not solicit alms in a diocese without the consent of the ordinary.
A large size fruit in a dream represents earnings that are not yet free from due alms.
He did several illuminations of prayers and painted an alms box for a church in Philadelphia.
There is a story about a beggar meeting Alexander the Great and asking him for alms.
He saw a monk who begged alms claimed that he would rebuild Shaolin in the South.
It shows a wealthy lady encouraging her young daughter to give alms to a dying old man.
Because devotion is not the alms of a beggar ; it is the treasure of the affluent.
Devotees must sometimes wait for a year to get a slot in the alms calendar of a temple.
For those in immediate crisis, alms and a shelter for the homeless served as a stopgap.
Only under the most compelling moral circumstances will a monk refuse alms that have been offered.
Whether given alms or not, they leave after a set period of time … without a thank you.
Cornelius received the Spirit like a reward for his fear of God and his constant alms.
If all those who want a confession gave me alms like that I would already be Cardinal.
It is not a charitable contribution and is considered to be a tax, or obligatory alms.
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It never regards such aid as a kind of unilateral alms but as something mutual . b.
On the left a horseman in a red cloak rides forward ; a beggar asks him for alms.
She was a pious and charitable woman, giving alms with a generosity proportionate to her means.
With the desire I have to be evil and keep all the Sunday alms for myself.
They even give alms to a rich person who asks for alms, and things like that.
We have brought but a meagre sum, but give us full measure as alms bestowed.
Those who do not pay the alms ; and regarding the Hereafter, they are disbelievers.
The financial power of a marja ' is reinforced by the judicial alms paid by his followers.
When He was on alms - round or doing His daily tasks His mind was empty.
Takuhatsu ( 托鉢 ) is a traditional form of dāna or alms given to Buddhist monks in Japan.
If I go with them, all will become weary and will be unable to obtain alms.
I ask for the grace and compassion, for the alms of that word I know not.
Acts 3 speaks of a lame man sitting at the door of the Temple begging for alms.
Allah obliterateth usury, and increaseth the alms . And Allah loveth not any ingrate sinner.
If I can no longer bend a longbow, I will become a mere beggar for alms.
O Great Queen! in the Kali Age alms are efficacious in the accomplishment of all things.
On the streets of the capital, Sanaa, an elderly woman begs for alms with a loudspeaker.
I am not asking for alms but, rather, the ear of a kind man with a noble heart.
They can take 4 forms depending on the context, the alms bowl, a star, a wheel and a basket.
Alms for a child of misfortune? Why don't you go and ask your noble friend Telemachus?
And perform the prayer, and pay the alms, and bow with those that bow.
D'Artagnan drew himself up with a proud air which plainly said, "I ask alms of no man.
And he said to him, " Your prayers and alms went up for a memorial before God.
Still a couple of hours before closing . Who 's up for tossing some alms at the poor?
We want to roll out 15 AlMS centers in the next five years, all over Africa.
Now at that time 500 devatās were eager for the chance to give alms to Ven.
Who perform the prayer, and pay the alms, and have sure faith in the Hereafter.
Tomorrow, I am going to town, and on my way I will call you, to gather alms.
XXIV v. 354 The giving of alms is an act of charity toward those less fortunate.
We never learned just what the size of his take of -- his alms -- had been.
The Prophet said " That meat is alms for her, but for us it is a present . ".
In 1416, the bridge included a hermitage in which a man could request alms for the bridge.
Armaturen-Service Alms GmbH was founded in 1984 in Essen and relocated to its current headquarters in.
Its current name was given in 1334 during the installation of alms houses on the street.
Back in 1991, India was the world 's greatest aid recipient, a patently uncompetitive giant begging for alms.
