Quotes About Generosity

He is a God to us and dispenses everything bountifully also when everything is most hopeless.

Thus the Apostle commands us to work with our own hands, that we may have to give to those that need. He might have said, that we may support ourselves; but he tells us to give to those that need.

Every city should support its own poor, and if it was too small, the people in the surrounding villages should also be urged to contribute

See, according to this rule the good things we have from God should flow from one to the other and be common to all, so that everyone should "put on" his neighbor and so conduct himself toward him as if he himself were in the other's place.

I will therefore give myself as a Christ to my neighbor, just as Christ offered himself to me; I will do nothing in this life except what I see is necessary, profitable, and salutary to my neighbor, since through faith I have an abundance of all good things in Christ.

For a man does not serve that he may put men under obligations. He does not distinguish between friends and enemies or anticipate their thankfulness or unthankfulness, but he most freely and most willingly spends himself and all that he has, whether he wastes all on the thankless or whether he gains a reward.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, "What are you doing for others?"

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?

Without a second thought, without anything except their own need to give.

One who practices pure religion soon discovers it is more rewarding to lift a man up than to hold him down.

Look for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.

To begin with, one must not cause grief to anyone, whether great or small, unbeliever or believer, and one must not give help to those who are well off.

Treat your family like guests and your guests like family.

As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way.

There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.

Death is also the moment of a gift that the old give to the young, a last opportunity to teach about life, but is so shaped by accident and happenstance that the moment may pass and wisdom is often unexpressed. The young stand by, wanting to give back to their parents some fraction of the care given to them, hoping that their parents will meet death in a way that softens the anticipation of death in their own lives and reconfirms their sense of the integrity or generosity of their parents.

The best gift of Christmas is a child, of course. But the next best is giving time and talent to help one another.

Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

The more I give to thee, the more I have.

Love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He Himself is kind to ungrateful and evil men.

Love seeketh not itself to please, but for another gives its ease.

You may give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.