Quotes About Giving

she] had a great reputation for unselfishness because she was always giving up a lot of things she didn't want.

I hope some one will always need me," said Anne to Dusty Miller. "And it's wonderful, Dusty Miller, to be able to give happiness to somebody.

Darling, you're terribly mistaken about it all. God doesn't make bargains. He gives... gives without asking anything from us in return except love. When you ask Father or me for something you want, we don't make bargains with you... and God is ever and ever so much kinder than we are. And He knows so much better than we do what is good to give.

Sometimes not giving is the gift. —KATE FAL

If this sadness is something she has passed on, she wants to take it back, take all of it back and bear the burden herself. Make different choices, be braver, do just about anything so her daughter thinks she is worthy of getting everything that she needs as opposed to trying to figure out how to be better at giving it away.

And the more you spend in blessing The poor and lonely and sad, The more of your heart's possessing Returns to you glad.

You are my sunrise. Your smile lights up my world. I could give anything just to see you happy. True love is not in getting things from others but in giving and sharing more and more.

Even a smile can be charity.

Focus on giving smiles away and you will always discover that your own smiles will always be in great supply!

Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

When paying charity, one should smile and be humble, allowing the hand of the indigent to be above the giver's hand.

The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.

Charity with a smile shows the donor's character.

Everyone can afford to give away a smile.

Giving to other people makes me feel alive. Not my car or my house. Not what I look like in the mirror. When I give my time, when I can make someone smile after they were feeling sad.

To give awkwardly is churlishness. The most difficult part is to give, then why not add a smile?

I'm like Robin Hood. I rob the rich to make these projects come alive... not really rob. It's done with a smile.

The more we are illuminated, the more we want others to experience that also. We can't help but be generous and giving, because self and other is one, and the nature of self and the nature of other is one; it is true nature giving itself to itself. (p. 9)

There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern. Nothing

There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.

You can sing all you want about how you love Jesus, you can have crocodile tears in your eyes, but the consecration that doesn't reach your purse has not reached your heart.

The covetous are poor givers.

Her lie was symptomatic of a certain pride she took in mocking the romantic, in being unsentimental, matter-of-fact, stoic; yet at heart she was the opposite: idealistic, dreamy, giving, and deeply attached to everything she liked verbally to dismiss as mushy.

Money is but one venue for generosity. Kindness is an even more valuable currency.