A monk asked Abba John, “If I would like to give alms, but my thought has doubts about giving, what should I do?” Abba John replied, “Examine yourself, and if you find that you are doing this out of stinginess, then give something even beyond what you should have given, for example an additional small amount, and you will receive God’s mercy.”
Saying of the Desert Fathers & Mothers
Fathers in Iconography 