There are times we are givers, but others time we have to let others give to us.

America is a giving nation and very compassionate.

His words even imply that philanthropy has deeper depths than is generally realized. The great emotions of compassion and mercy are traced to Him; there is more to human deeds than the doers are aware. He identified every act of kindness as an expression of sympathy with Himself. All kindnesses are either done explicitly or implicitly in His name, or they are refused explicitly or implicitly in His name.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

What you wish to others, God wishes to you.

I want to be a giving woman and just a nice person in general.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.

Every merciful act to the needy, the suffering, is as though done to Jesus.

Well, your greatest joy definitely comes from doing something for another, especially when it was done with no thought of something in return.

I'm all about thoughtful gifts. If you put thought behind it - it could be $5 - but if there's thought behind it, I think that's what matters.

That whenever I felt like helping someone who was short of money, or otherwise in need, I never had to be told that I had no resources to do it with. And that I was never put in that position myself—of having to take something from someone else.

Give what thou wilt, and take away what thou wilt, saith he that is well taught and truly modest, to Him that gives, and takes away. And it is not out of a stout and peremptory resolution, that he saith it, but in mere love, and humble submission.