Quotes about Generosity

None of us has the power to make someone else love us. But we all have the power to give away love, to love other people. And if we do so, we change the kind of world we live in.

Selfishness is weakness. But loving and caring for others is a position of power beyond anything we can possibly imagine.

Sacrifices are no sacrifices when they are repaid a thousand fold.

Be daily, therefore, on your knees, in a solemn deliberate performance of this devotion, praying for others in such forms, with such length, importunity, and earnestness, as you use for yourself; and you will find all little, ill-natured passions die away, your heart grow great and generous, delighting in the common happiness of others, as you used only to delight in your own.

and have not Charity (that is, have not the Spirit of Christ) it profiteth me nothing.

We give with joy in our hearts. We give out of our humble circumstances. We give out of our wealth.

I place no value on anything I have or may possess, except in relation to the kingdom of God. If anything will advance the interests of the kingdom, it shall be given away or kept, only as by giving or keeping it I shall most promote the glory of Him to whom I owe all my hopes in time or eternity.

25th December, 1872, Christmas Day.—I thank the good Lord for the good gift of His Son Christ Jesus our Lord. Slaughtered an ox, and gave a fundo and a half to each of the party. This is our great day, so we rest.

Your days at the most cannot be very long, so use them to the best of your ability for the glory of God and the benefit of your generation.

Give something, however small, to the one in need. For it is not small to one who has nothing. Neither is it small to God, if we have given what we could.

Thank God, He doesn't measure out grace in teaspoons.

Gratitude grows from a seed called grace. If you're not grateful you might still be trying to earn what God freely gives.