Giving Quotes - Page 295

Love is authentic only when it gives freedom. Love is true only when it respects the other person's individuality, his privacy.

We make our way through Everything like thread passing through fabric, giving shape to images that we ourselves do not know.

And it shall be my endeavour to reveal thee in my actions, knowing it is thy power gives me strength to act.

The key to liberation from the power of materialism is not an exodus from culture - abandoning Wall Street or leaving the wealth of the nation to others - but the grace of giving... Givers for God disarm the power of money. They invite God's grace to flow through them.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

When you wonder about the mystery of yourself, look to Christ, who gives you the meaning of life. When you wonder what it means to be a mature person, look to Christ, who is the fulfillness of humanity. And when you wonder about your role in the future of the world look to Christ.

A community needs a soul if it is to become a true home for human beings. You.. the people must give it this soul.

Do I pray that the Lord gives me the desire to do his will, or do I look for compromises because I'm afraid of God's will?

Fraternal love is the nearest testimony that we can give that Jesus is alive among us.

In Confession, Jesus welcomes us with all our sinfulness, to give us a new heart, capable of loving as he loves.

Silence gives consent. [Lat., Qui tacet, consentire videtur.]

Recognizing and uniting with the universal therefore gives us the greatest aesthetic satisfaction, the greatest emotion of beauty. The more determinately (consciously) this recognition is experienced, the more intense our happiness. The more determinately (consciously) this union with the universal is felt, the more individual subjectivity declines.

This is the gist of what I know: Give advice and buy a foe.

Live while you live, the epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day; Live while you live the sacred preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies. Lord, in my views let both united be; I live to pleasure when I live to thee.

When you allow a person's words to upset you, you're giving away your power.

There are 6 billion people in the world and every single one is a diamond in some stage of being polished. Life is either going to polish you up or grind you down. And the difference between the two lies in how much hope you have, how much faith you have in the fact that you do carry something special on the inside that's waiting to get out. Many give up, not knowing they were only 10 minutes from triumph.

TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.

I love people. I wanted to be with the people. I wanted to give something back what I get from football, because God gave everything to me.

One must remember that the higher he climbs the spiritual ladder toward the Kingdom of Heaven, the more will he grant others their own freedom and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

I am convinced that both markets and free trade are good, but the traditional answer that we give to students to explain why they are good, the one based on perfect competition and Pareto optimality, is becoming untenable. Something much more interesting and more complicated is going on here

Not to teach the whole curriculum is to give up on the whole man.

The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.

Having the courage to stand up and pursue your dreams will give you life's greatest reward and life's greatest adventure.

I'm very wary about giving advice. I think it's very dangerous to give advice to people, except if you know them very well.

Music originally had a social function. You were in church, in a concert hall, a marching band; you were dancing. I'm concerned that music could be too separated from its roots and just become a pleasure-giving experience, like a drug.