Quotes about Generosity

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

Philanthropy combines genuine pity with the display of power and that the latter element explains why the powerful are more inclined to be generous than to grant social justice.

Special mercy arouses more gratitude than universal mercy.

Every man therefore is bound to do all the good he can to others, especially for the church and commonwealth.

a person must pass the lessons learned on to others—or there has been no real gift at all.

I am not preoccupied with collecting more goods and services; quite simply, my desire and effort—every day—is to pay back, to give back to the world a bit of what I have received.

All the emptying out is only for the sake of a Great Outpouring.

Clearly, you are participating in a Love that's being given to you. You are not creating this. You are not generating this. It is being generated through you and in you and for you. You are participating in something larger than yourself and you are just allowing it and trusting it for the pure gift that it is.

We have always made it hard for God to give away God for free.

The God we've been presenting people with is just too small and too stingy for a big-hearted person to trust or to love back.

whatever that takes, and then has plenty left over for others. True heroism serves the common good, or it is not really heroism at all.

If God chooses and doles out his care, we are always insecure and unsure whether we are among the lucky recipients. But once we become aware of the generous, creative Presence that exists in all things natural, we can receive it as the inner Source of all dignity and worthiness. Dignity is not doled out to the worthy. It grounds the inherent worthiness of things in their very nature and existence.