Quotes About Generosity

Love can never give too much, But those of us who love Can give in too much.

Generosity is to help a deserving person without his request, and if you help him after his request, then it is either out of self-respect or to avoid rebuke.

Do not feel ashamed if the amount of charity is small because to refuse the needy is an act of greater shame.

O son of Adam, if you have collected anything in excess of your actual need, you will act only as its trustee for someone else to use it.

If you are greeted then return the greetings more warmly. If you are favoured, then repay the obligation manifold; but he who takes the initiative will always excel in merit.

The best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires.

Be generous but not extravagant, be frugal but not miserly.

Overlook and forgive the weaknesses of the generous people because if they fall down, God will help them.

Human beings have to be more ingenious than this, and more generous. We've got to come up with a better answer.

With a bit of help and a bit of luck, we get to be more than the one thing or the nothing that history'd have us be. We're only here by the grace and the work of others. I am anyway. Here's to those others who helped, that's my prayer when I go to my bed, and may I be such an other to a good many myself.

It isn't a good enough answer, that one group of people can be in charge of the destinies of another group of people and choose whether to exclude them or include them. Human beings have to be more ingenious than this, and more generous. We've got to come up with a better answer.

It's so warm it's almost friendly. A friendly work of art. I've never thought such a thing in my life. And look at it. It's never sentimental. It's generous, but it's sardonic too. And whenever it's sardonic, a moment later it's generous again.

One day instead the old woman said kind words to her and gave her an awning on a stick to keep rain off (there has been much rain in purgatorium)

Every life is meant to help all lives; each man should live for all men's betterment.

Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave, and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.

A gift - be it a present, a kind word or a job done with care and love - explains itself!... and if receivin' it embarrasses you, it's because your 'thanks box' is warped.

There has to be enough for us, so give it to me

O Sol nunca reclama seus raios; sua generosidade é sem fim.

What might be the fruit of fasting stinginess? What would happen if our churches fasted spectatorship? What might occur if our families fasted accumulation? What could change if our offices fasted revisionism? What might erupt if a new generation fasted escapism? Such fasts could trigger a spiritual revolution.

Ik heb geen erfgenamen. Ik wil graag dat jij Willowmere erft, Claire. Het is verschrikkelijk duur om te onderhouden, maar met het geld van oom Al kun je het nog een hele tijd volhouden. Dat krijg je natuurlijk ook... Tenslotte, lieve Alice, moeten we het wel in de familie houden. - Myra

Giving was better than getting

The law is that the hungry must be fed, and the homeless must be housed, and the sick must be healed. That is the way of the Light." Maerad

The law is that the hungry must be fed, and the homeless must be housed, and the sick must be healed. That is the way of the Light.

It is good to dress in fair clothes to dine with friends. It honors your host, if you are a guest; and your guest if you are a host. And both adorn the feast, and so celebrate the gifts of the world.