Quotes about Generosity
May the time come when rich men and great men would think it an honor to support whole stations of missionaries in Africa, instead of spending their money on hounds and horses.
— David Livingstone
Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
— St. Jerome
How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
— Teresa of Avila
Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.
— Timothy Keller
The cure for materialism is to have enough for everybody and to share. When people are sure of having what they need they cease to think about it.
— Henry Ford
You never have to drag mercy out of Christ, as money from a miser.
— Charles Spurgeon
There's plenty of room for everyone in the world. Enough money, riches, and beauty for all to share. God has made enought for everyone, so let us all begin then by sharing it fairly.
— Anne Frank
Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.
— Victor Hugo
Let us not make the poor our friends by our alms, not our enemies by our scorns. We had better have the ears of God full of their prayers, than heaps of money in our own coffers with their curses.
— Thomas Adams
Wise people know that all their money belongs to God.
— John Piper
When I ask people to give, I can't be on television if they don't; I can't help people, if I don't - I mean, it takes money.
— Joyce Meyer