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How to use almsgiving in a sentence

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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.
When you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right is doing, so that your almsgiving may be secret.
There are three traditional focuses for our Lenten observance and they are prayer, fasting and almsgiving.
Venial sins were to be cleansed by daily use of the Lord's Prayer and by almsgiving.
One dimension of Lent that tends to get pushed to the side is the practice of almsgiving.
The spiritual practices of almsgiving, prayer, and fasting are to move us closer to God, not farther from each other.
In this theater almsgiving is rewarded by trumpet fanfare, prayer is a public parade, and the discomfort of fasting is a spectacle.
If the heart is not inspired by sincerity in bestowing alms then almsgiving becomes mere display.
Of course, there are other forms of almsgiving than money, such as time and talent.
He calls for total submission to His commandments through obedience, prayer, almsgiving, fasting and a pilgrimage to Mecca in one's lifetime.
Finally, they value the moral life and worship God especially through prayer, almsgiving and fasting.
Such moments are accompanied by prayer, rituals, sacrifices, reading of the Scriptures, fasting, pilgrimages and almsgiving.
In my almsgiving, make me a grain of rice that in the company of others, my gifts may feed a starving world.
Fasting, prayer, almsgiving and other practices traditionally indicate this transformation.
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.
On the other hand, Jesus points out that if believers faithfully practice almsgiving, prayer, and fasting then an unstated heavenly reward awaits them.
He was in charge of the care of church property and almsgiving.
Compassion is at least as key in education as in almsgiving.
The widow Sofia pleased God with her prayers, fasting, and almsgiving.
He encouraged devotion to the Host as well as daily almsgiving.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He has added some illustrations of positive duties, almsgiving, prayer, fasting.
As he was always keeping the precept of almsgiving, he shared his opulence with the people.
The principle is applied in succession to almsgiving, to Prayer, to Fasting.
Bad economic conditions and traditions, and a bad system of almsgiving, might enthral him.
But almsgiving has another aspect, on which early writers insist with some fullness.
When he considered this, he was uneasy, because his habit of almsgiving could not well proceed.
The almsgiving of the church by degrees took the place of annona and sportula, and it may have created pauperism.
Thus far his almsgiving had superior merits to that of other men.
Charity, also, in its largest sense, is far wider than almsgiving.
In his early years he was really devout and generous in almsgiving.
Mathilda's almsgiving was so extravagant that Otto dismissed her from his court, fearing she'd bankrupt him.
Cultivating a bountiful spiritual life makes good use of Lent's traditional tools of fasting, almsgiving, and prayer.
All the money which her father gave her she employed in almsgiving.
The end pursued by means of fasting, prayer, and almsgiving is to be eternal, aimed at the eschatological vision of the kingdom that pervades Jesus' preaching.
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