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Quotes About Generosity

I'm here on this Planet for Give Love to Others, why They are Here I not Ask and Don't Know.
~ Jan Jansen Easy Branches
kindnesses is the power from the heart.
~ Jan Jansen Easy Branches
When we grow up with Love it's Easy to Share it with Others.
~ Jan Jansen Easy Branches
Father, make me a blessing to someone today, through Christ our Lord. Amen.
~ Jan Karon
To do it all and deprive others of doing is...a misguided notion.
~ Jan Karon
I thought of you when I read this quote from "Come Rain or Come Shine (A Mitford Novel)" by Jan Karon - "Listening is among the most generous ways to give. When a loved one talks to us— whether their words appear to be deep or shallow— listen. For in some way, they are baring their souls.
~ Jan Karon
We don't have to do great things to make a difference. We can make a great difference by doing small things graciously.
~ Jan Karon
Be thankful for the smallest blessing," Thomas à Kempis had written, "and you will deserve to receive greater. Value the least gifts no less than the greatest, and simple graces as especial favors. If you remember the dignity of the Giver, no gift will seem small or mean, for nothing can be valueless that is given by the most high God." Father
~ Jan Karon
How wonderful that it's possible to ensure our own happiness of another. Is it our job to make a beloved happy? It is not. The other person always has a choice. It is our job to generously outdo, no matter what, and discover that the prize in this contest of generosity is more love.
~ Jan Karon
I think it means to go unfettered by cares, by the infernal bondage of the mortal. Go with a light heart, trusting God and giving thanks. Go and gather unto yourselves so you can pour out to others.' He took a deep breath. 'Go without looking back.
~ Jan Karon
In effect, a good marriage happens when the happiness of the other is essential to your own happiness. We might say that a good marriage is a contest of generosities.
~ Jan Karon
Listen. 'Listening is among the most generous ways to give. When a loved one talks to us—whether their words appear to be deep or shallow—listen. For in some way, they are baring their souls.
~ Jan Karon
Only he who gives thanks for little things receives the big things.
~ Jan Karon
In Ephesians 5:28, we're told that he who loved his wife loves himself. In effect, a good marriage happens when the happiness of the other is essential to your own happiness. We might say that a good marriage is a contest of generosities. 'How wonderful that it's possible to ensure our own happiness by seeking the happiness of another.
~ Jan Karon
He leaned against the mantel and stretched, breathing the prayer he learned from his grandmother: Lord, make me a blessing to someone today.
~ Jan Karon
Listening is among the most generous ways to give.
~ Jan Karon
Lord,' he prayed, 'make me a blessing to someone today.
~ Jan Karon
Then he turned and went home to the yellow house where he had been given everything and more, none of it especially deserved.
~ Jan Karon
Lord, make me a blessing to someone today.
~ Jan Karon
Listening is among the most generous ways to give. When a loved one talks to us— whether their words appear to be deep or shallow— listen. For in some way, they are baring their souls.
~ Jan Karon
A man's true wealth is the good he does in this world.
~ Jan L. Coates
There's something singularly moving about that moment when this man—deaf and sick and misanthropic and self-torturing, at the same time one of the most extraordinary and boundlessly generous men our species has produced—greets us person to person, with glass raised, and hails us as friends.
~ Jan Swafford
munificence.
~ Jan Swafford
The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.
~ Jane Austen