Quotes About Generosity

Let us consider what we call vicious luxury. No gratification, however sensual, can of itself be esteemed vicious. A gratification is only vicious when it engrosses all a man's expense, and leaves no ability for such acts of duty and generosity as are required by his situation and fortune. The same care and toil that raise a dish of peas at Christmas would give bread to a whole family during six months.

It is only from the selfishness and confined generosity of men, along with the scanty provision nature has made for his wants, that justice derives its origin.

I attended a dinner party where the hostess kept the bottle of water sequestered under the table, guarded by her feet during the entire meal. Midway through dinner, completely dessicated, I could hold out no longer and summoned up the last bit of moisture in my mouth to form the words to ask for a sip. With some reluctance, she reached down to extract the bottle and poured a tiny trickle into my glass. Right after my ration was doled out, she screwed the top back on and stowed away the bottle.

I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.

A natural man lives for himself; a lover lives for others.

Some would say you're abusing my generosity." "Impertinent bastards.

My losses by the robberies of the Banian employed slaves are more than made up by Mr. Stanley, who has given me twelve bales of calico; nine loads = fourteen and a half bags of beads; thirty-eight coils of brass wire; a tent; boat; bath; cooking pots; twelve copper sheets; air beds; trowsers; jackets, &c. Indeed, I am again quite set up, and as soon as he can send men, not slaves, from the coast I go to my work, with a fair prospect of finishing it.

To my great joy I got four flannel shirt from Agnes, and I was delighted to find that two pairs of fine English boots had most considerately been sent by my friend Mr. Waller. Mr. Stanley and I measured the calico and found that 733-3/4 yards were wanting, also two frasilahs of samsam, and one case of brandy.

25th December, 1872, Christmas Day.—I thank the good Lord for the good gift of His Son Christ Jesus our Lord. Slaughtered an ox, and gave a fundo and a half to each of the party. This is our great day, so we rest.

To maximize the chances of preserving a long-term bond, couples would do well to remain faithful; produce children together; secure ample economic resources; act kind, generous, and understanding; and attend to their mate's sexual and emotional desires. These actions do not guarantee a successful relationship, but they increase the odds substantially.

What you make happen for others, God will make happen for you.

Your days at the most cannot be very long, so use them to the best of your ability for the glory of God and the benefit of your generation.

Remember, only what you give can God multiply back. If you give nothing, and even if God were to multiply it, it would still be nothing!

Give something, however small, to the one in need. For it is not small to one who has nothing. Neither is it small to God, if we have given what we could.

God doesn't bless us just to make us happy; He blesses us to make us a blessing.

He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.

Thank God, He doesn't measure out grace in teaspoons.

Gratitude grows from a seed called grace. If you're not grateful you might still be trying to earn what God freely gives.

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.

No matter how small the gift, God gives the increase.

If we are not full of Him we have nothing to offer to anyone else.

The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.

God spreads grace like a 4-year old spreads peanut butter-He gets it all over everything.

For God is good — or rather, of all goodness He is Fountainhead, and it is impossible for one who is good to be mean or grudging about anything.