Quotes about Generosity

God's gifts aim at making us into generous givers, not just fortunate receivers. God gives so that we, in human measure, can be givers too.

God acts differently. God continues to give, refusing to make giving dependent on our receiving things rightly.

Is the gratitude that flows out of your life as abounding as the grace that has flowed into your life?

SERVICE, Sacrifice and Self-Control are three words which must be well understood by the person who succeeds in doing something that is of help to the world.

The Divine Economy is automatic and very simple: we receive only that which we give.

What! Giving again?" I ask in dismay. "And must I keep giving and giving away?" "Oh no," said the angel looking me through, "Just keep giving till the Master stops giving to you!

It's amazing how people will give when you don't ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.

True love doesn't contain suffering or attachment. It brings well-being to ourselves and others. True love is generated from within. With true love, you feel complete in yourself; you don't need something from outside. True love is like the sun, shining with its own light, and offering that light to everyone.

The most precious inheritance parents can leave their children is their own happiness. Parents' happiness is the most valuable gift they can give their children

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.

Shall we refuse to the unhappy fugitives from distress that hospitality which the savages of the wilderness extended to our fathers arriving in this land? Shall oppressed humanity find no asylum on this globe?