Quotes about Generosity

The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.

The Promised Land was a tangible representation of God's ultimate desire for His people, but they failed to comprehend His gift for at least three reasons: It was unconditionally promised, it was outrageously generous, and it was absolutely free. None of those make sense in the world as we know it...

You cannot be a Big person with a Small heart.

This will wreck you! Today, treat everyone you meet as if they're going to be dead by midnight. extend all the kindness and understanding you can, and do it with no thought of any reward.

Love? You have no understanding that to love is to give, not to take.

There is my first insight, young woman. Always downplay the value of money; it will make it much easier for him to hand it over.

Love is giving, not taking.

When we give away our rights and surrender our wills, when we give our obedience, our return is "good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over.

Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received--only what you have given.

A man sins who wishes to receive more from his neighbor than he is himself willing to give to the Lord God.

Upon this, Bernard went and sold all that he had. Now he was very rich, and with great joy he distributed his wealth to widows, to orphans, to prisoners, to monasteries, to hospitals, and to pilgrims, in all which St Francis assisted him with prudence and fidelity.

I have nothing, I owe a great deal, and the rest I leave to the poor.