Quotes About Generosity

Life is not about maximizing everything, it's about giving something back - like light, space, form, serenity, joy. You have to give something back.

Anyone who gives you a cinnamon roll fresh out of the oven is a friend for life.

Life is not about winning the race. Life is about finishing the race, and how many people we can all help finish this race. How we can start being kinder to each other

No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.

Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

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En ocasiones las personas ofrecen su luz pero esta parpadea y es extremadamente tenue, porque nunca antes se ha ocupado nadie de ellas. Porque han dado demasiado de sí mismos y ya no les queda nada.

We are not put on this earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you.

Tu valor está relacionado con tus conocimientos y tu predisposición a ayudar a los demás. ¿Cuánto vales para los demás?

were also among the least successful, and he provided advice about how to be generous without being a patsy.

givers were not only among the most successful individuals

I suppose no one is as handsome or as beautiful as he or she wishes, or as brilliant in school or as witty in speech or as wealthy as we would like, but in a world of varied talents and fortunes that we can't always command, I think that makes even more attractive the qualities we can command--such qualities as thoughtfulness, patience, a kind word, and true delight in the accomplishment of another. These cost us nothing, and they can mean everything to the one who receives them.

Teach your children that many of the blessings of the Church are available to them because you and they give tithes and offerings to the Church. Teach them that those blessings could come virtually no other way.

Jesus said in His most remarkable sermon ever: "For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?" (Matthew 5:46-47) I make an appeal for us to reach beyond our own contentment, to move out of our own comfort and companion zones, to reach those who may not always be so easy to reach. If we do less, what distinguishes us from the biblical publican?

Through His grace God has dealt bread to the hungry and clothing to the poor. At various times in our lives that will include all of us, either temporally or spiritually speaking.

True power is learning how to put others first and not judge a book by its cover, so to speak.

The world is a lot bigger than just you and me, and life isn't worth living if you don't use your powers to help those around you,

Nothing is too much to ask when it is done out of love,

You'd be surprised how powerful kindness actually is. I am not being dramatic: you can save hearts and lives with grace. Do

As Jesus explained, the right things have to die so the right things can live—we die to selfishness, greed, power, accumulation, prestige, and self-preservation, giving life to community, generosity, compassion, mercy, brotherhood, kindness, and love. The gospel will die in the toxic soil of self.

So we spend, spend; amass, amass; indulge, indulge item by item, growing increasingly deaf to Jesus who described a simple life marked by generosity and underconsumption. Over time a new compartment develops for our spending habits, safely distanced from the other drawers like "discipleship" and "stewardship" (which has been helpfully reduced to tithing). And listen, I am first in line.

Maybe we don't recognize satisfaction because it is disguised as radical generosity, a strange misnomer in a consumer culture.