Quotes about Giving

Whatever we give, we have to give out of love. That, I believe, is the nature of God.

How different our standard is from Christ's. We ask how much a man gives. Christ asks how much he keeps.

Wherever there is life, there is a continual interchange of taking in and giving out, receiving and restoring. The nourishment I take is given out again in the work I do; the impressions I receive, in the thoughts and feelings I express.

These two, consecration and faith, are the essential elements of the Christian life—the giving up all to Jesus, the receiving all from Jesus. They are implied in each other; they are united in the one word—surrender. A full surrender is to obey as well as to trust, to trust as well as to obey.

I will not learn it until I realize that "God is love," and to claim and receive it as an indwelling power for self-sacrifice. I will not love until I begin to see that my glory, my blessedness, is to be like God and like Christ, in giving up everything in myself for my fellow-men.

He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

The world says you gain your life by getting more and more and more and more, but Jesus says, 'No, that leads to death. You get it back by giving it away and when you give it away you get it back.'

Generosity isn't an act. It's a way of life.

There is great joy in doing something for somebody else with no thought in receiving anything in return.

Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.

Understand that the only way to get happiness is by giving it away to others.

If we want to find happiness, let's stop thinking about gratitude or ingratitude and give for the inner joy of giving.