Quotes about Generosity

The more you are grateful for what you have the more you will have to be grateful for.

If you work really hard, and you're kind, amazing things will happen.

Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen

Mama's love had always been the kind that acted itself out with soup pot and sewing basket. But now that these things were taken away, the love seemed as whole as before. She sat in her chair at the window and loved us. She loved the people she saw in the street-- and beyond: her love took in the city, the land of Holland, the world. And so I learned that love is larger than the walls which shut it in.

The Gestapo chief leaned forward. I'd like to send you home, old fellow," he said. "I'll take your word that you won't cause any more trouble." I could not see father's face, only the erect carriage of his shoulders and the halo of white hair above them. But I heard his answer. "If I go home today," he said evenly and clearly, "tomorrow I will open my door again to any man in need who knocks.

What I spent, I had; what I saved, I lost; what I gave, I have.

Unseen by either of us, Father had appeared in the doorway. "Give the child to me, Corrie," he said. Father held the baby close, his white beard brushed its cheek, looking into the little face with eyes as blue and innocent as the baby's own. At last he looked up at the pastor. "You say we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family." The pastor turned sharply on his heels and walked out of the room.

Mama's love had always been the kind that acted itself out with soup pot and sewing basket. But now that these things were taken away, the love seemed as whole as before. She sat in her chair at the window and loved us. She loved the people she saw in the street—and beyond: her love took in the city, the land of Holland, the world. And so I learned that love is larger than the walls that shut it in.

If I go home today," he said evenly and clearly, "tomorrow I will open my door again to any man in need who knocks.

We reflect God's character the most when we give freely of ourselves with no strings attached, no secret motives, no hidden agenda.

Weirdly enough, the more we give away, the richer we become.

Each time you think something good, speak it. Never rob someone of the blessings of an unspoken treasure.