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Quotes About Generosity

Since Biblical faith calls us to generously share our resources with needy people, Christians in rich nations ought to promote generous immigration policies that make it easier, rather than harder, for poor immigrants to enter their country legally to seek work.
~ Ronald J. Sider
What an ironic tragedy that an affluent, "Christian" minority in the world continues to hoard its wealth while hundreds of millions of people hover on the edge of starvation!
~ Ronald J. Sider
There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.
~ Ronald Reagan
There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.
~ Ronald Reagan
Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.
~ Ronald Reagan
We were very very lucky children! I pray that our future generations have as much fun, in whatever way! We should at least try to leave enough water, greenery, forests .. simple means of human sustenance .. if for no other reason but to repay Nature's debt on all of us..who enjoyed nature's charity to the hilt selfishly..when it was meant for ALL human beings including children of the future ..
~ Rooma Mehra
Do whatever comes your way as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people and other things that are interesting. Put a good deal of thought into happiness that you are able to give.
~ Roosevelt, Eleanor
What time is the funeral" " Two pm." "Are you going, Sergeant?" "Yes." "Can anyone go?" "Anyone can go Beula, but only good people with respectful intentions should attend don't you think? Without Tilly's tolerance and generosity, her patience and skills, our lives - mine especially - would not have been enriched. Since you are not sincere about her feelings or about her dear mother and only want to go to stickybeak - well it's just plain ghoulish isn't it?
~ Rosalie Ham
Unlike success and failure, contribution has no other side.
~ Rosamund Stone Zander
On the whole, resources are likely to come to you in greater abundance when you are generous and inclusive and engage people in your passion for life.
~ Rosamund Stone Zander
My name is Lily Florabella Truax Beaupre, named after the woman who helped my mother, the woman who became my ghost.
~ Louise Erdrich
We are never so poor that we cannot bless another human, are we? So it is that every evil, whether moral or material, results
~ Louise Erdrich
La jeunesse vraie, la seule, c'est d'aimer tout le monde sans distinction, cela seulement est vrai, cela seulement est jeune et nouveau.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Jane seemed to just like her. She liked her without wanting anything in return:
~ Luanne Rice
Sam said. "He goes to the soup kitchen.
~ Luanne Rice
I have a theory about the assists we get in life. Only rarely can we repay those people who helped us, but we can pass that help along to others.
~ Lucille Ball
Forgiving's a choice you make—a gift you give to somebody even if they don't deserve it. It costs nothing, but it makes you feel rich for giving it away.
~ Lurlene McDaniel
Don't let us quarrel. We all have our weaknesses, dear friends; so we must strive to be considerate of one another. And since this poor boy is hungry and has nothing whatver to eat, let us all remain quiet and allow him to sleep; for it is said that in sleep a mortal may forget even hunger. - Scarecrow
~ Lyman Frank Baum
Love was a gift that should be given freely, and without the expectation of gaining anything in return. It was nothing to be ashamed of, nothing to be afraid of. It just was.
~ Lynsay Sands
You must have something in order to give it up.
~ M.Scott Peck
There is no prayer greater than service.
~ Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati
You cannot deny me the fact," he said; "that the donor's pleasure is always greater than that of the beneficiary.
~ Machado de Assis
We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
We want nothing from you that you do without grace or [...] understanding.
~ Madeleine L'Engle