Quotes About Giving

In ordinary life, we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich." —Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Only he who gives is happy.

If the Lord loveth a cheerful giver, how he must hate the taxpayer!

The Christmas season has come to mean the period when the public plays Santa Claus to the merchants.

He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

This is significantly different from the notion of giving everyone the means of production. It consists of making the means of production mobilize its audience, a form of auto-stimulation.

For as we all know, real love is altruism. It is finding oneself through giving up oneself.

The world says you gain your life by getting more and more and more and more, but Jesus says, 'No, that leads to death. You get it back by giving it away and when you give it away you get it back.'

You were created to add to life on earth, not just take from it. God wants you to give something back.

Giving is not a strategy. It's a way of life.

Generosity isn't an act. It's a way of life.

Tithe in kind where your spirit is fed.

Selfless giving is friendliness. An attitude towards life, a reverence for life. It is one of the highest of all ways.

Never resist a generous impulse.

When you give death, you give of your own life - every time.

what is life worth if one has nothing to give away? This lack, it seems to me, must be the sharpest pang of poverty.

A giving which gives only its gift, but in the giving holds itself back and withdraws, such a giving we call sending.

What's interesting about subscribing to a life of giving is that you become addicted.

You get most things in life not by taking, but by giving.

It is beautiful, beautiful to give; one of the very most beautiful things in life.

Life itself is selfless giving. We're not given this life just for own amusement and pleasures.

Whatever it is that you wish to experience more of in your life, be the source of it in the life of another.

The value of a life is determined by what we give away.

With what we give, we make a life.