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ID:143
Blessed be he who considers the poor: the Lord will deliver him in the day of trouble.

  - Psalms/Tehillim 41:2Topics: charity justice and law
ID:146
Water will quench a flame and almsgiving atones for sins.

  - Ben Sira 3:30Topics: charity sin and repentance
ID:147
Who gives charity makes a thankoffering.

  - Ben Sira 35:2Topics: charity
ID:148
If you have abundance, give alms accordingly to match; if you have but a little, fear not to give accordingly.

  - Tobit 4:8Topics: charity
ID:213
Make it your rule not to ask for yourself more than others give you!

  - Samuel Joseph AgnonTopics: charity wisdom
ID:216
One does not send a dob as a gift to a bald man.

  - Samuel Joseph AgnonTopics: charity wisdom
ID:239
Never refuse to lend books to a man who has not the money to buy them for himself- - -if you are sure he will return them!

  - Yehuda Ben TibbonTopics: charity books
ID:255
Do not bar your door to borrowers!

  - Talmud, Bava BatraTopics: charity justice and law
ID:292
Who has two meals may accept nothing from a charity kitchen.

  - Peah 8:7Topics: food and drink charity
ID:293
Benevolence is kindlier than charity.

  - Talmud Yerushalmi, PeahTopics: charity
ID:294
Who accepts alms he needs not will end by truly needing alms before he leaves this world.

  - Talmud, KetubotTopics: charity justice and law
ID:297
Had the people of the generation of the Flood and the people of Sodom given charity, they would not have been destroyed.

  - Midrash ZutaTopics: charity
ID:298
Charity lengthens one's days and years.

  - Tana Deve Eliyahu ZutaTopics: golden years charity
ID:299
Because of charity the world abides.

  - RashiTopics: charity
ID:300
No man was ever beggared by giving charity.

  - R. YoelTopics: charity
ID:301
There is no religious command that has such instant effect as that concerning charity.

  - PlantaviusTopics: charity Torah/Bible/Tanach
ID:302
Alms for the needy cannot be deemed a dole.

  - Theodor HerzlTopics: charity justice and law
ID:339
Who occupies himself with the needs of the community is as though he occupies himself with Torah.

  - Talmud Yerushalmi, BerakhotTopics: charity Torah/Bible/Tanach government
ID:436
If the rich could be redeemed from death by charity, every pauper would be a millionaire.

  - WallachTopics: charity death
ID:613
A good man does his fellow a favor for no reason save that he is a good man.

  - Zror HamorTopics: charity friendship wisdom
ID:614
If you do a man a favor, do not regard it as a debt he must repay!

  - Mishle Shua'limTopics: manners charity wisdom
ID:615
A man remembers better the good deeds and favors he did others than those that others did him.

  - ObsyTopics: charity wisdom
ID:679
A truly generous man is he that always gives, whether it be much or little, before he is asked.

  - Orchot TsadikimTopics: charity
ID:684
A gift given in secret averts wrath.

  - Proverbs (Mishle) 21:14Topics: charity
ID:693
Honor the Lord with your substance!

  - Proverbs (Mishle) 3:9Topics: charity
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