Giving Quotes - Page 339

We must forgive our enemies.

Let us not give up on the Lord. His blessings are eternal, not temporary.

You really can give a 110% effort towards something that you are truly passionate about.

The lesson of Good Friday is to never lose hope — or at least give it 48 hours.

Chance is another name that we give to our mistakes. And all of the best things in my films are mistakes.

The only hope for healing is to offer a better form of ecstasy, to upgrade so the addict will give up the stupid one.

Everytime you forgive you disappoint the devil.

When God gives, he holds nothing back.

The more one gives one's self in creative union with another, the more one becomes one's self.

There was a poll released yesterday that said most people would rather give up sex than give up their cell phones.

Humility is a fertile soil where spirituality grows and produces the fruit of inspiration to know what to do. It gives access to divine power to accomplish what must be done. An individual motivated by a desire for praise or recognition will not qualify to be taught by the Spirit. An individual who is arrogant or who lets his or her emotions influence decisions will not be powerfully led by the Spirit.

It is our responsibility to learn how to speak to an audience that is less informed about music, to give it a reason to want to come and see us instead of going to the movies.

When I learned to forgive, it was like a million pounds were lifted from me.

Get as much out of life as you possibly can with all the passion that goes with it. Then give it back with all the love and respect it deserves.

In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.

By and large, life will give you what you deserve and it doesn't give a damn what you like. So it is up to you to take full responsibility to connect what you want with what you need to do to get it, and then to do those things.

Facts quite often, I fear to confess, like lawyers, put me to sleep at noon. Not theories, however. Theories are invigorating and tonic. Give me an ounce of fact and I will produce you a ton of theory by tea this afternoon. That is, after all, my job.

All matter is quantified thought - manifested by the thoughts you give precedence to. It is your dominant thoughts that determine your destiny.

Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard of giving. (Look again at 2 Corinthians 8:14 and 9:11).

Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.

What makes our marriage holy, what makes it "set apart" and sacramental, isn't the marriage certificate filed away in the basement or the degree to which we follow a list of rules and roles, it's the way God shows up in those everyday moments - loading the dishwasher, sharing a joke, hosting a meal, enduring an illness, working through a disagreement - and gives us the chance to notice, to pay attention to the divine. It's the way the God of resurrection makes all things new.

The obligation to endure gives us the right to know.

God doesn't want us to just feel gratitude, but for us to show it by giving thanks to God with our lives.

Love is fostered by confidence and constancy; he who is able to give much is able also to love much.

You have to get beyond blaming others . . . give up your excuses . . . stand responsible for what you do . . . ultimately, ethics ends up an individual exercise.