Quotes about Sharing
A willingness to share our possessions with one another is a very important aspect of true biblical community.
— Jerry Bridges
Give generously of what you have, and if you don't have much, give little generously.
— Scot McKnight
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by doubling our joy and dividing our grief.
— Joseph Addison
God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.
— St. Basil
Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
Not to share our own wealth with the poor is theft from the poor and deprivation of their means of life; we do not possess our own wealth, but theirs.
— St. John Chrysostom
Winners will take what they know and share it with others.The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.
— Anonymous
The strength of a friendship can be measured by the weight of the burden it's willing to share. (If you want to test this just ask someone to help you move.)
— Richard Paul Evans
If everyone would take only according to his needs and would leave the surplus to the needy, no one would be rich, no one poor, no one in misery.
— St. Basil
The common life that believers have in Him. In the same manner, if believers are to share with one another
— Jerry Bridges
Each inheritance is to be divided by lot among the larger and smaller tribes.”
— Numbers 26:56
The Talmud teaches that there are four kinds of people in the world. The first person says, What's yours is mine. The second person says, What's yours is yours. The third person says, What's mine is mine. And the fourth person says, What's mine is yours. Which one are you?
— Mark Batterson