Quotes about Generosity

To generous souls every task is noble.

Visit those who are sick, or who are in trouble, especially those whom God has made needy by age, or by other sickness, as the feeble, the blind, and the lame who are in poverty. These you shall relieve with your goods after your power and after their need, for thus biddeth the Gospel.

I embrace the term 'evangelical,' if by that we mean a belief that we together can actually work for change in the world, caring for the environment, extending to the poor generosity and kindness, a hopeful outlook. That's a beautiful sort of thing.

The lesson God engraved on my heart that day was while I didn't necessarily need the money, she needed to give it. The exchange itself—both the giving and the receiving—illustrates a key characteristic of Christian community. To open-handedly bless others from the riches God has so generously given us and to open-handedly receive blessings from others binds believers together in an interdependent, Jesus-and-others-oriented web of grace.

there is no limit to the amount of good that you can do so long as you do not care who gets the credit.

We can't help everyone but everyone can help someone.

Ultimately, no man or woman is happy unless they have found a way to contribute beyond themselves.

By lighting another's candle you brighten your own.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me?

For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.