Giving Quotes - Page 170

What is the chief end of preaching? I like to think it is this: It is to give men and women a sense of God and His presence.

The Lord gives his people perpetual joy when they walk in obedience to him.

If you are rushed for time, sow time and you will reap time. Go to church and spend a quiet hour in prayer. You will have more time than ever and your work will get done. Sow time with the poor. Sit and listen to them, give them your time lavishly. You will reap time a hundredfold.

They say my public persona don't have enough appeal, I take a lesson from Kanye and give 'em something real.

Success is the peace of mind that comes when you know you have given everything you have to give to the opportunities that life has presented you.

Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.

Don't abandon what makes you who you are. Don't give up hope.

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.

Life is a cruel teacher. She loves to give you the test first and the lesson later.

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

Sometimes we may ask God for success, and He gives us physical and mental stamina. We might plead for prosperity, and we receive enlarged perspective and increased patience, or we petition for growth and are blessed with the gift of grace. He may bestow upon us conviction and confidence as we strive to achieve worthy goals.

Whatever it is that you're passionate about... try to figure out a way to make money at it and give it a shot.

I love color. I feel it inside me. It gives me a buzz.

Even more important than the warmth and affection we receive, is the warmth and affection we give. It is by giving warmth and affection, by having a genuine sense of concern for others, in other words through compassion, that we gain the conditions for genuine happiness. More important than being loved, therefore, is to love.

Even if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end.

The only way to happiness is never to give happiness a thought.

Obedience is our responsibility. The outcome is God's responsibility. As we learn to trust him with our future, trust him with those we love, trust him as our provider, and trust his sovereign plan, that gives us the foundation to step out in faith. We can trust that he'll always be faithful.

God has not made this world to be a nest for us, and if we try to make it such for ourselves, he plants thorns in it, so that we may be compelled to mount and find our soul’s true home somewhere else, in a higher and nobler sphere than this poor world can give.

Subtlety will sometimes give safety, no less than strength; and minuteness has sometimes escaped, where magnitude would have been crushed. The little animal that kills the boa is formidable chiefly from its insignificance, which is incompressible by the folds of its antagonist.

Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.

I never give up. Doesn't matter what the score is.

The audience will always forgive you for being wrong and exciting, but never for being right and dull.

Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe techniques as though not observing.

Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would have been wrong. Audiences wouldn't have responded to that either.

The more people they can give us upfront the harder we play.