One must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to share it.

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

This Christmas and every Christmas will be richer by sharing and enjoying gifts that cannot be held but only felt.

What seems like sacrifice becomes instead a kind of nourishment because dispensing grace enriches the giver as well as the receiver.

The key is this: the main benefit of giving is in its effect on the giver. Yes, people in Africa and India need my financial help, as the fund-raising appeals urgently remind me. But in truth my need to give is every bit as desperate as their need to receive.

Our need to give is every bit as desperate as the poor's need to receive.

blessing. • When you consider your level of willingness to give of yourself, does it reveal more contentment or discontentment residing

The key to liberation from the power of materialism is not an exodus from culture - abandoning Wall Street or leaving the wealth of the nation to others - but the grace of giving... Givers for God disarm the power of money. They invite God's grace to flow through them.

God can have our money and not have our hearts, but He cannot have our hearts without having all our money.

Religious Americans donate more and volunteer more time to charitable institutions than do secular Americans.

My kids have so much, and it's the only way I can teach them that there is a responsibility to their life that comes with being lucky. You give some of yourself to others.

The Dead Sea in the Middle East receives fresh water, but it has no outlet, so it doesn't pass the water out. It receives beautiful water from the rivers, and the water goes dank. I mean, it just goes bad. And that's why it is the Dead Sea. It receives and does not give. In the end generosity is the best way of becoming more, more, and more joyful.