Quotes about Generosity
It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.
— Mortimer Adler
If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.
— St. Basil
Mercy is not giving someone what they deserve. Grace is giving someone what they don't deserve. Extend God's wisdom in your relationships.
— Andrew Wommack
What would you think of a person who always wanted things from you but never offered a word of thanks in return? We can be that way with God, can't we? Let's remember to thank Him.
— Greg Laurie
The heart that gives, gathers.
— Lao Tzu
Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
— Catherine of Siena
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Never will I pursue happiness, because it is not a goal, just a by-product, and there is no happiness in having or in getting, only in giving.
— Og Mandino
Street cred is hard won and Destiny requires you to pay it forward. God helps you through hard times so you can help someone else.
— Bishop TD Jakes
Funny how often something she'd been so certain she needed turned out not to be a need at all, but a want--when the real 'need' was something else entirely. Something that could only be gained by giving, not by getting.
— Tamera Alexander
I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'
— Joseph Addison
The rich man is not one who is in possession of much, but one who gives much.
— St. John Chrysostom