Generosity Quotes - Page 11

Christmas is more that a time of festivities, family, and friends; it is a season of generosity, gladness, and gratitude.

Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.

When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music.

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

Once you have known the generosity of existence you will never feel miserable.

Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness.

Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal.

A Single Generosity Enlarges the World.

Generosity, to be perfect, should always be accompanied by a dash of humor.

Give naught, get same. Give much, get same.

We are possessed by the things we possess. When I like an object, I always give it to someone. It isn't generosity-it's only because I want others to be enslaved by objects, not me.

The gift without the giver is rare.

God inclines to shower His graces upon us, but our perverted will is a barrier to His generosity.

Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do a great deal if we choose our goals well and work diligently to attain them.

True generosity is too frequently eaten up by prosperity and riches.

Righteousness and generosity are inseparable. The person whose heart longs for God also longs to give to others.

And as we meet needs on earth, we are proclaiming a gospel that transforms lives for eternity. The point is not simply to meet a temporary need or change a startling statistic; the point is to exalt the glory of Christ as we express the gospel of Christ through the radical generosity of our lives.

If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.

We are all, by nature, clearly oriented toward the basic human values of love and compassion. We all prefer the love of others to their hatred. We all prefer others’ generosity to meanness. And who is there among us who does not prefer tolerance, respect and forgiveness of our failings to bigotry, disrespect, and resentment?

Generosity is self-existing openness, complete openness. You are no longer subject to cultivating your own scheme or project. And the best way to open yourself up is to make friends with yourself and with others.

There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.

Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves.

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.