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.

Love the giver more than the gift.

When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.

I am writing to Russell at the same time. I think we know, don't we, that the English, the Yankees, have this much in common with the Dutch, that their charity…is very Christian. Now, the rest of us not being very good Christians…That's what I can't put out of my head writing again like this.

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.

When combined with information and communication technologies, microcredit can unleash new opportunities for the world's poorest entrepreneurs and thereby revitalize the village economies they serve.

Dating is a give and take. If you only see it as "Taking," you are not getting it.

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.

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