Quotes About Generosity

others for His glory. As they busily scurry to hoard their personal resources

Qué haríamos con dos millones (si los tuviéramos)», explica la diferencia entre los filántropos y los cristianos: «Los filántropos se los darían a los pobres que se lo merecieran, y los cristianos, a los pobres que no lo merecieran; porque si los cristianos fueran verdaderos cristianos, lo primero que pensarían es que ellos mismos constituían un ejemplo de ricos que no merecían serlo»

No." Gray Wing blinked. "Clear Sky was never greedy. In the mountains he gave his food up for Fluttering Bird. No cat changes that much.

Ravenpaw, wolfing down a small finch beside the tree stump. He saw Firepaw approach the pile and flicked his head encouragingly. Firepaw bent his neck, ready to take a small wood mouse in his teeth. "Not for you," Tigerclaw growled, striding up behind him and pawing the mouse away. "You didn't bring back any prey. The elders will eat your share. Take it to them.

Thank you, Mistyfoot," he meowed. "I won't forget this. And if ever I can do anything for you—" "Just go!" Mistyfoot hissed. As Fireheart slipped past her toward the gap in the bushes, she added with a purr of amusement, "And don't forget the fox dung.

I think perfect love is any time you love unconditionally, without selfish intent, without concern for personal gain.

Can I get you anything? A drink? A fresh change of clothes? A membership card to Hypocrites International?

Her instinct was always to act out of kindness and generosity instead of self-interest. She was a better person than me, and I was a better person when I was around her.

I came to realize that one single human being, comprehended in his depth, who gives generously from the treasures of his heart, bestows on us more riches than Caesar or Alexander could ever conquer. Here is our kingdom, the best of monarchies, the best republic. Here is our garden, our happiness.

La Guerra, que tantas cosas nos quita, es generosa en este aspecto; nos educa para una comunidad masculina y vuelve a situar en el lugar que les corresponde unos valores que estaban semiolvidados.

Though it sometimes looks like a rich man will never help the poor; whereas the poor people will give away everything they has to help somebody who ain't got nothing. That's how it looks to me. Don't seem like it ought to be that way, but I reckon the rich ain't got no time to fool with us poor folks.

You can't get sick enough to help sick people get better. You cannot get poor enough to help poor people thrive.

The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness

The quality of your life ultimately depends on the quality of your relationships . . . which are basically a reflection of your sense of decency, your ability to think of others, your generosity.

Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.

În seara aceea, stau în buc?t?ria casei înguste, beau o ceaÈ™c? cu ceai È™i m?nânc o felie de pâine cu gem dulce de la generozitate È™i acru de la amintiri.

But you, warm from the hearts of all those sisters and brothers - oh go back to them and be poor and happy and grow up in the healthy atmosphere of 'give and take' instead of our most wretched one of 'keep'.

Getters don't get--givers get.

Never walk away from someone who deserves help; your hand is God's hand for that person.

Eugene H. Peterson

Some of us try desperately to hold on to ourselves, to live for ourselves. We look so bedraggled and pathetic doing it, hanging on to the dead branch of a bank account for dear life, afraid to risk ourselves on the untried wings of giving. We don't think we can live generously because we have never tried. But the sooner we start the better, for we are going to have to give up our lives finally, and the longer we wait the less time we have for the soaring and swooping life of grace.

God acts positively toward his people. God is not indifferent. He is not rejecting. He is not ambivalent or dilatory. He does not act arbitrarily, in fits and starts. He is not stingy, providing only for bare survival.

I tell you, love your enemies. Help and give without expecting a return. You'll never — I promise — regret it. Live out this God-created identity the way our Father lives toward us, generously and graciously, even when we're at our worst. Our Father is kind; you be kind.

Listen carefully to what I am saying—and be wary of the shrewd advice that tells you how to get ahead in the world on your own. Giving, not getting, is the way. Generosity begets generosity. Stinginess impoverishes." NEVER WITHOUT A STORY