Quotes about Altruism

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.

Fast offerings are used for one purpose only: to bless the lives of those in need.

If you give, you will be blessed.

Love, and you shall be loved.

It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

One of the most beautiful compensations in life is that no person can help another without helping themselves

Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in light of Scripture and human need.

Giving sacrificially also means giving the best. If we have two blankets and someone needs one of them, sacrificial giving hands over the better of the two. Sadly, much of our "giving" is merely discarding. Donating secondhand goods to church rummage sales

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can." —John Wesley

It's possible for someone to act sacrificially and selflessly in the best interests of others while enjoying the fruit: feeling good about having done well and receiving God's approval and reward.