Giving Quotes - Page 2

Sometimes an outside perspective is the clearer perspective.

Give and receive with gratitude. Do the former, without expectation of, the latter.

Your mockers will only have your attention only if you give them your attention

Letting go of people doesn’t mean you never loved them. Sometimes, it is the greatest act of love because it teaches them to be accountable for how they treat people who care. Maybe, not now, but years from now, they will look back and realize that kindness is more than yelling casual suggestions to a person that is drowning in their sea of apathy.

Was it possible to do both, to contribute to the world while merely observing it? To be content in the moment, but plan for the future? Could you follow your heart without losing all common sense?

If you seek success, serve others. If you seek immortality give. Serve or give your time, skills, talent or gift. In the end, what you leave behind are trails of the lives you changed and the hearts you touched.

One of the greatest evils is the foolishness of a good man. For the giving man to withhold helping someone in order to first assure personal fortification is not selfish, but to elude needless self-destruction; martyrdom is only practical when the thought is to die, else a good man faces the consequence of digging a hole from which he cannot escape, and truly helps no one in the long run.

The image of God infused in us never sees the light of day in the service of self, but it becomes the light of day in the service of others.

There is a very real relationship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of this world.

To calculate sacrifice is to attempt to sacrifice safely, and safe sacrifice is one of the most outrageous oxymoron’s I can think of.

God determines the goals of the prosperity before giving prosperity before giving prosperity to His children

I believe this; "When you have a needy person in your neighbourhood, it's an opportunity for you to become a wealthy and healthy person!" Giving time is blessing time!

Every gift is held by two hands: the one that gives, and the one that takes away.

Every sunrise is an invitation for us to arise and brighten someone's day.

Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart.

You will know it is love not when you think about them all the time or want to be with them, but when you worry about them and you want their approval and happiness.

The age of strong belief is over the good is no longer always very good.

Sacrifice is a noun in my vocabulary that should be a verb in my life.

The energy that mosquitoes need to lay eggs is neither the same as that which elephants need to bring forth nor that which a woman needs to push, yet they all need a certain amount of energy vital for them to produce something! Go help somebody for God’s sake; your little is vital! Your little will inspire! Your little will bring smiles! Go help somebody now!

Give, but give until it hurts.

I can think of no greater way to live my life than with as much love as I can give, as often as I can give it.

I think I possess because I do not try to give,Trying to give, I see that I have nothing.

Be good sweet maid and let who can be clever.

What we spend, we lose. What we keep will be left for others. What we give away will be ours forever.

During sex, people are often way too focused on giving or taking to actually just celebrate this moment, be themselves completely, and rejoice in their own realities.

When we give out to others we are also giving to our selves. It builds a life of meaning

Nothing shows our hearts like sacrifice. When we are willing not only to give from our excess, but to embrace some personal loss or disadvantage for the sake of showing generosity toward others, we say loudly and clearly…that we have a greater love than ourselves and our comforts.

Love is about giving, about caring for the other person's welfare. Love is treating someone, in the Kantian sense, never as a means but as an end in themselves. Love is sacrifice, love is something you work at, something you build like a house or tend like a plant, brick by brick, drop by drop, day by day. Nonsense. Old wives' tales, old husbands' tales. That is affection they are talking about, that is companionship, that is charity, that is tickets for the Cancer Research Ball. You must ask the young if you want to know what love is. Only they are deep enough in it to describe. We older ones have clues and simulacra, we base our judgement, like pathologists do, on the dents and scars and sediments of hearts long kept in formaldehyde. It is the pulsing heart you want to probe: the pulsing, beating, leaping, dipping, fluttering heart of a seventeen-year-old.

A good heart is a universal key that opens the door of the unthinkable gate of goodness

Everyone wants a piece of you. The trick is what piece to give.

We must share! Sharing IS caring. Share everything: every idea, every resource, every story, every gift, every worry and every burden. Share yourself.

...the true value of an offering isn't measured by how much we give. It's measured by how much we keep...By definition, a sacrifice must involve sacrifice...

A thief is one who insists on sharing his victimhood.

If the baser instinct of rampant self-preservation adamantly refuses to surrender itself to the infinitely greater call of self-sacrifice, in attempting to save our lives we will have in reality completely destroyed our lives.

Christians are God's delivery people, through whom he does his giving to a needy world. We are conduits of God's grace to others. Our eternal investment portfolio should be full of the most strategic kingdom-building projects to which we can disburse God's funds.

No amount of money can fill your heart up with what kindness and compassion can.

The meaning of life is simply the meaning we give to it.

Giving and empathy provide us with opportunities to nurture our innate goodness.

Thoughts turn to other's just a little more this time of year. Days grow shorter and memories grow longer. Families and friends gather in celebration or hope. Giving is a reflection of our love and caring for each other and those less fortunate. May your thoughts turn to gratitude this holiday season and carry on throughout the next year…

Our highest deeds come from helping the lowest people.

We cherish reprobates, not for their cruelty, but for their little show of patronage.

When in doubt as to what you should do, err on the side of 'giving.

Give until it hurts.

We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in.

...as the old saying goes: if you teach a man to fish, he will feed himself for a lifetime. But if you just give him a fishing pole, he’ll have to teach himself.

The child you hold in your arms is your gift to a future that you will not see. Therefore, we must turn a blind eye to ourselves and selflessly pour the best of ourselves into our children while rigorously sifting out the worst of ourselves. And once we are utterly spent by such daring gestures, we will shockingly discover the resulting emptiness as astonishingly filled.

I feel like I am a millionaire not by the things I have but by the things I have given

By being beautiful and kind you are given favored status and opportunity in life.

If it has anything to do with me, it has nothing to do with sacrifice.

Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in light of Scripture and human need.

It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Bravery is the choice to show up and listen to another person, be it a loved one or perceived foe, even when it is uncomfortable, painful, or the last thing you want to do.

The act of giving, abundant life.

Give freely to the world these gifts of love and compassion. Do not concern yourself with how much you receive in return, just know in your heart it will be returned.

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving mercy?

Joy is the net of love by which we can capture souls. God loves the person who gives with joy. Whoever gives with joy gives more. The best way to show our gratitude to God and to people is to accept with joy.

There's a new kind of Giving-I remember when Philanthropy was inconspicuous and anonymous.Now it has turned in to " Look at me, I just saved the world" kind of show.

Giving tithes alone is not enough for financial prosperity.

Tithing is a sacred gift to health and wealth.

Girls should be taught at school that giving birth to an unnaturally over-sized western baby that no longer fits down the birth canal may lead to a multitude of long term health problems.