"As far as you can, do some manual work so as to be able to give alms, for it is written that alms and faith purify from sin."

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Let us also love our neighbors as ourselves. Let us have charity and humility. Let us give alms because these cleanse our souls from the stains of sin. Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.

— Francis of Assisi