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John Ruskin Quotes about Giving

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God gives us always strength enough, and sense enough, for what He wants us to do; if we either tire ourselves or puzzle ourselves, it is our own fault.

God gives us always strength enough, and sense enough, for what He wants us to do; if we either tire ourselves or puzzle ourselves, it is our own fault.

God, Religious, Giving

"The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallisation".

We are foolish, and without excuse foolish, in speaking of the superiority of one sex to the other, as if they could be compared in similar things! Each has what the other has not; each completes the other; they are in nothing alike and the happiness and perfection of both depend on each asking and receiving from the other what the other only can give.

Sex, Equality, Giving

John Ruskin (2001). “Sesame and Lilies”, p.76, Electric Book Company

God is a kind Father. He sets us all in the places where he wishes us to be employed. He chooses work for every creature which will be delightful to them if they do it simply and humbly. He gives us always strength enough and sense enough for what he wants us to do.

Father, Giving, Wish

John Ruskin (1873). “The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallisation”, p.132

Give me some mud off a city crossing, some ochre out of a gravel pit and a little whitening and some coal dust and I will paint you a luminous picture if you give me time to gradate my mud and subdue my dust.

Dust, Cities, Giving

John Ruskin (2012). “The Elements of Drawing”, p.149, Courier Corporation

Give an earnest-hearted, devoted girl any true work that will make her active in the dawn, and weary at night, with the consciousness that her fellow-creatures have indeed been the better for her day, and the powerless sorrow of her enthusiasm will transform itself into a majesty of radiant and beneficent peace.

Girl, Night, Giving

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 122, 1895.

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

Education, Giving, Educate

Value is the life-giving power of anything; cost, the quantity of labour required to produce it; its price, the quantity of labourwhich its possessor will take in exchange for it.

Giving, Cost, Produce

John Ruskin (2016). “The Crown of Wild Olive”, p.190, John Ruskin

We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it a false name. It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men.

Men, Names, Giving

John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.180, University of Virginia Press

Candlesticks and incense not being portable into the maintop, the sailor perceives these decorations to be, on the whole, inessential to a maintop mass. Sails must be set and cables bent, be it never so strict a saint's day; and it is found that no harm comes of it. Absolution on a lee-shore must be had of the breakers, it appears, if at all; and they give plenary and brief without listening to confession.

Giving, Listening, Saint

John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.129

Such help as we can give to each other in this world is a debt to each other; and the man who perceives a superiority or a capacity in a subordinate, and neither confesses nor assists it, is not merely the withholder of kindness, but the committer of injury.

Kindness, Men, Giving

John Ruskin (1872). “The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and Its Application to Decoration and Manufacture, Delivered in 1858-9”, p.149

Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show there is no such thing as a flower; on humanity, to show there is no such thing as a man; and on theology, to show there is no such thing as a God. No such thing as a man, but only a mechanism, No such thing as a God, but only a series of forces.

Flower, Men, Giving

John Ruskin (1918). “Selections and Essays”, Scholarly Press

Once thoroughly our own, the knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Knowledge, Giving, Pleasure

"The Stones of Venice".

God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it.

Giving, Duty, Giving Time

John Ruskin (2015). “Lectures on Architecture and Painting”, p.66, John Ruskin

It is not the church we want, but the sacrifice; not the emotion of admiration, but the act of adoration; not the gift, but the giving.

Sacrifice, Giving, Religion

John Ruskin (1855). “¬The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.17

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

Giving, Literature, Alms

John Ruskin (2015). “Lectures on Architecture and Painting”, p.66, John Ruskin

He who has once stood beside the grave, to look back upon the companionship which has been forever closed, feeling how impotent there are the wild love, or the keen sorrow, to give one instant's pleasure to the pulseless heart, or atone in the lowest measure to the departed spirit for the hour of unkindness, will scarcely for the future incur that debt to the heart which can only be discharged to the dust.

Heart, Dust, Giving

John Ruskin (1848). “Modern Painters”, p.6

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