Quotes About Giving

I think I'm even more open and more giving as a father now. I pay more attention now because I value it more and I'm less caught up with my career.

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

The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.

We respond to healing grace by giving it away.

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. Six times in the Gospels Jesus iterated the deeper truth that we succeed not by acquiring more and more but by "losing" life through service to God and others.

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

The key is this: the main benefit of giving is in its effect on the giver. Yes, people in Africa and India need my financial help, as the fund-raising appeals urgently remind me. But in truth my need to give is every bit as desperate as their need to receive.

An institution cannot love; only people can love. As the proverb says, apart from love, giving becomes an insult.

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

Simonides, then, after the manner of poets, would seem to have spoken darkly of the nature of justice; for he really meant to say that justice is the giving to each man what is proper to him, and this he termed a debt. That

The key to liberation from the power of materialism is not an exodus from culture - abandoning Wall Street or leaving the wealth of the nation to others - but the grace of giving... Givers for God disarm the power of money. They invite God's grace to flow through them.

I'm going to have to give him shit for all this,' Shane said, as he wandered around. 'He lives alone and makes his bed? Who does that?' 'People who like things neat?' 'Its not natural.

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

she took what she gave and she gave what she took, yes, but sometimes she gave just a little bit more – and that little bit more is the whole art of teaching, the whole art of living, in fact, and Miss Puddleton knew it.

the more you expect from life, the more your expectations will be fulfilled. By laughing, you do not use up your laughter, but increase your store of it. The more you love, the more you will be loved. The more you give, the more you will receive.

she was generous with her time and energy, and in her own generosity she found joy.

Kindness is something that should always be passed on.

HAPPIEST ARE THE PEOPLE WHO GIVE THE MOST HAPPINESS TO OTHERS.

perhaps, in giving of myself, I would find the joy Paul had promised. And maybe, given time, it would be possible for me to find my way back to life.

Giving with no expectation of a return is the only way to give," he said. That is, of course, the absolute truth, although I had not thought of it before.

My kids have so much, and it's the only way I can teach them that there is a responsibility to their life that comes with being lucky. You give some of yourself to others.

The Dead Sea in the Middle East receives fresh water, but it has no outlet, so it doesn't pass the water out. It receives beautiful water from the rivers, and the water goes dank. I mean, it just goes bad. And that's why it is the Dead Sea. It receives and does not give. In the end generosity is the best way of becoming more, more, and more joyful.

He gave you to me, she said, so low I could hardly hear her. Now I have to give you back to him, Mama.

When you give of yourself, it's draining.