Quotes about Generosity

It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.

The Democratic position seems to be everything is going to be free. Free education. Free health care. Free housing. Free love. Free kittens, I don't know.

If you have anything, or if I have anything, it's because it's been given to us by our Creator.

Americans also don't need to be taught how to give. We don't need to be taught how to take care of each other or how to be charitable.

I give to panhandlers on occasion, especially around the holidays, but have always been involved with charity, which was an important part of the way I was brought up. My siblings and I knew early on in life that we were incredibly fortunate and have never taken that for granted, so we recognize the importance of giving back.

Small kindnesses often, unintentionally, produce the biggest payoffs.

Helping others carries its own rewards, the first of which is a return to humanity.

In your hurry to keep Christmas, you have forgotten Christmas. The truest gift of Christmas is the gift of self.

The well from which we receive grace is only filled by sharing it with others. --- Charles James's Diary

First, most people think the word prodigal means wayward or lost. It doesn't. Prodigal means lavish or wastefully extravagant. It's like spending money recklessly. It also means to give on a lavish scale. So, in the case of the prodigal son story, you could argue that the father was prodigal since he gave his love freely, on a lavish scale. You might even say recklessly.

The well from which we receive grace is only filled by sharing it with others.

Servants focus on others, not themselves. This is true humility: not thinking less of ourselves but thinking of ourselves less