Quotes About Generosity

Anyone can give away something expensive, but only those who understand sacrifice can give away something valuable.

I was beginning to learn from my grandfather that love covers a multitude of sins and that I was more important to him than his stuff.

When you're feeling sorry for yourself, do something nice for someone else.

You'll be surprised at how kind most people are.

I just don't want you to look back on your life twenty years from now, Maggie, and see all the things you could have done," Mom says, blowing her nose again. "I think I'll look back and see all the things I did do, Mom," I say, a little starch creeping into my voice. "I'll see that I fed people and welcomed them, I helped them and kept them company... those are good things, Mom.

after all, hospitality was a virtue, one of the highest in Mamma's esteem.

Having achieved my own dreams, I want to give to kids who are less fortunate, who struggle with everyday obstacles. I want to give them something positive in their lives: support.

I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle selfishness. I write about joy because I know sorrow. I write about faith because I almost lost mine, and I know what it is to be broken and in need of redemption. I write about gratitude because I am thankful - for all of it.

The compass of compassion asks not what is good for me? but what is good? Not what is best for me but what is best. Not what is right for me but what is right. Not how much can we take? but How much ought we leave? and how much might we give? Not what is easy but what is worthy. Not what is practical but what is moral.

The errors which proceed from a spirit of benevolence are the worst.

Lucretius expresses this, wonderfully: . . . we are all born from the same celestial seed; all of us have the same father, from which the earth, the mother who feeds us, receives clear drops of rain, producing from them bright wheat and lush trees, and the human race, and the species of beasts, offering up the foods with which all bodies are nourished, to lead a sweet life and generate offspring . . . (De rerum natura, bk. II, lines 991–97) It

The human heart is bigger than the world.

Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.

I tried to think of something equally kind to say, but he seemed to have used up all the eloquence in the room.

Adopting a vegan diet brings your choices and actions in line with those same beliefs that underlie a commitment to resisting regressive politics: generosity, compassion, and a commitment to justice and fairness. By acting in a way that reflects your values and what you believe, you relieve the cognitive dissonance that can make stress and depression worse.

Our capacity to give away speaks to the universe of our willingness to receive.

PRAYER Dear Lord, teach me to cultivate a thankful heart as a gift to You and to the world around me. Remind me when I grumble and complain that Your will for me is to speak blessings and to be a blessing to everyone I know. Amen.

If anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because of me, he will not lose his reward,' quoted Jonathan softly.

You could be generous with the love you gave, with the care you took with others. You could follow all the commandments that made sense to you and still the world could sideswipe you. There was no cause and effect. There was no karma.

The letter of the law says, "Let them glean." The spirit of the law says, "Feed them." Two entirely different concepts. Ruth's bold proposal exposes the difference.

Formal religion only takes us so far — for it is both safe and doable. Love, however, knows no limits, takes costly risks, and looks for ways to give more.

'Tis blessed to bestow, and yet, Could we bestow the gifts we get, And keep the ones we give away, How happy were our Christmas day!

I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.

I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about kindness.