Quotes About Generosity

Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give.

The nice thing about money is that you can do good things with it. I still feel like if something needs to be done or we need to raise money for someone on death row, we can find ways to do it.

I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

We respond to healing grace by giving it away.

As a counterbalance to the list of seven deadly sins, the church in the Middle Ages came up with a list of seven works of mercy: to feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked, house the homeless, visit the sick, ransom the captive, bury the dead.

The world starves for grace.

Or we can picture God as a caring parent with traits with love, generosity, and sensitivity- an infinite Being who personally interacts with and responds to creation. Accordingly, God considers prayers much as a wise parent might consider requests from a child.

If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?

What seems like sacrifice becomes instead a kind of nourishment because dispensing grace enriches the giver as well as the receiver.

Fulfillment comes not in pursuit of happiness, but rather in pursuit of service.

God's gifts are best used when we give them away in serving those who have less.

Grace is not about finishing last or first; it is about not counting.

what about grace? How rare to find a church competing to "out-grace" its rivals.

Why are we here? God wants us to flourish, and paradoxically we flourish best by obeying rather than rebelling, by giving more than receiving, by serving rather than being served.

Our need to give is every bit as desperate as the poor's need to receive.

Simplicity. Ah, that I can offer in abundance.

It is for your daughter," she said. "For Jane. To sit on. She seems not to have a seat of her own but she must borrow mine." There

Periodically Willis's mother would snatch her family's own food off the table and take it round to neighbours, replying to her son's protests: "Stop whining! You're hungry. They're starving!"84

That I learn of others, I replied, is quite true; but that I am ungrateful I wholly deny. Money I have none, and therefore I pay in praise, which is all I have; and how ready I am to praise any one who appears to me to speak well you will very soon find out when you answer; for I expect that you will answer well. Listen

blessing. • When you consider your level of willingness to give of yourself, does it reveal more contentment or discontentment residing

Sit with a merchant or sit with a beggar, and it'll always be the beggar who buys your first drink.

The Lord supplies our needs, but not our selfishness

We should be inspired by people... who show that human beings can be kind, brave, generous, beautiful, strong-even in the most difficult circumstances.

not thinking of what I can get, but thinking of what I can give