Quotes about Generosity

The habit of rendering more service than is expected

Generosity is not so much a virtuous act as it is a virtuous response.

When I was a kid, I'd always tell myself if I ever grew up to have money, I'd help even more people than I do when I didn't have any money.

It wasn't a miracle. Bestowed by God. It was a mercy. Offered by a human.

God's generosity is nowhere better seen than in the gift of patience.

When one assumes that you can substitute license for freedom, when one assumes that you can use another's deficiency for one's own generosity, when one assumes that you can use another person's misery and nightmares in order to clarify your own dreams. When all of those things are done and completed, then the surrender and the betrayal of one's culture is also complete.

Faith isn't simply tied to belief. It is tied to an action. Faith is tied to your feet. The power of faith comes when you are willing to give the very thing that you need to someone else so God can give "it" back to you.

In God's kingdom, we receive life by giving it away.

The call to self-emptying will always be unpopular to those whose pockets and closets are full. What

You can sacrifice and not love. But you cannot love and not sacrifice.

Anyone can give away something expensive, but only those who understand sacrifice can give away something valuable.

I was beginning to learn from my grandfather that love covers a multitude of sins and that I was more important to him than his stuff.