Quotes about Giving

Weirdly enough, the more we give away, the richer we become.

The Bible consistently and directly indicates that when we give generously, we're serving, honoring, and glorifying God. After all, generosity is fundamental to God's nature.

When you give, you will be blessed. When you give, it will be given back to you.

We find our lives when we give them away.

Our family has agreed to increase the percentage of what we give each year. Instead of increasing our standard of living, we're increasing our standard of giving.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.

There seems a magic in the very name of Christmas.

Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting.

When you with velvets mantled o'er, Defy December's tempests frore, Oh! spare one garment from your store, To clothe the poor at Christmas.

We respond to healing grace by giving it away.

God wants us to flourish, and paradoxically we flourish best by obeying rather than rebelling, by giving more than receiving, by serving rather than being served. Six times in the Gospels Jesus iterated the deeper truth that we succeed not by acquiring more and more but by "losing" life through service to God and others.