Quotes about Sharing

There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.

It is said that the difference between God and us is that God never thinks he is us. Genesis suggests some nuancing of that insight. God doesn't mind sharing with us the divine life and the divine image and thus the divine responsibility for the world, and eventually God will become one of us.

My chest of books divide amongst my friends--

I discovered that great men were willing to share their ideas. And I was learning so much. You can learn only if others are ahead of you.

We often find comfort in telling what is painful in actual experience.

Your faith will grow only in the measure that you give it away.

Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem most important to you.

He who hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none.

There is something wonderful about a book. We can pick it up. We can heft it. We can read it. We can set it down. We can think of what we have read. It does something for us. We can share great minds, great actions, and great undertakings in the pages of a book.

And what more sublime delight than to... share our bread with one to whom misfortune has left none!

He is poor who is dissatisfied; he is rich who is contented with what he has, and he is richer who is generous with what he has.

Giving is as important a duty as getting; and he who gets all he can, and refuses to give, will at last be unable to get; for it is as much a spiritual law that we cannot get unless we give, as that we cannot give unless we get.