Quotes about Generosity

a person must pass the lessons learned on to others—or there has been no real gift at all.

I am not preoccupied with collecting more goods and services; quite simply, my desire and effort—every day—is to pay back, to give back to the world a bit of what I have received.

All the emptying out is only for the sake of a Great Outpouring.

Clearly, you are participating in a Love that's being given to you. You are not creating this. You are not generating this. It is being generated through you and in you and for you. You are participating in something larger than yourself and you are just allowing it and trusting it for the pure gift that it is.

We have always made it hard for God to give away God for free.

The God we've been presenting people with is just too small and too stingy for a big-hearted person to trust or to love back.

whatever that takes, and then has plenty left over for others. True heroism serves the common good, or it is not really heroism at all.

If God chooses and doles out his care, we are always insecure and unsure whether we are among the lucky recipients. But once we become aware of the generous, creative Presence that exists in all things natural, we can receive it as the inner Source of all dignity and worthiness. Dignity is not doled out to the worthy. It grounds the inherent worthiness of things in their very nature and existence.

Live simply so that others may simply live.

Remember, He is giving it to us to manage, not to have. We are His bondservants, and we therefore do not have anything of our own. It is all His, and we must not spend it on ourselves unless He gives us permission.

When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you'll never get back. Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time.

We are healed to help others. We are blessed to be a blessing. We are saved to serve, not to sit around and wait for heaven.