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20c6903 Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely. attitude choice choices giving happiness inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring kindness life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking respect Roy T. Bennett
b8fee32 Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone's life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance. giving goals goals-in-life inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes learn learning life life-quotes light light-and-darkness living-life meaning meaning-of-life meaningful meaningful-life wisdom wise Roy T. Bennett
15116b4 Don't Jus act action change criticize doing dream dreams encouragement experience feeling giving inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quote inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring learning life life-and-living life-lessons life-philosophy life-quotes listening living optimism optimistic ponder positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking thinking transform Roy T. Bennett
9cc5e00 Help others without any reason and give without the expectation of receiving anything in return. give giving inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring kindness life life-quotes living Roy T. Bennett
47d104c You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. giving poetry Kahlil Gibran
a884735 Always have a willing hand to help someone, you might be the only one that does. giving inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring kind kindness kindness-quotes life life-quotes living optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking Roy T. Bennett
b6d9469 The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward. giving Carol Ryrie Brink
4be05c7 The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted, yet everyone takes the happy person for granted. No one is careful of his feelings or tries to keep his spirits high. He seems self-sufficient; he becomes a cushion for others. And because happiness seems unforced, that person usually gets no credit. giving happiness selfishness selflessness Gretchen Rubin
7e9aa20 If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that--warm things, kind things, sweet things--help and comfort and laughter--and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all. giving inspirational kindness givers Frances Hodgson Burnett
463bb49 Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters. beautiful christ-like compassion consideration divine-love divine-works empathy faith giving god-like good-works helping-others inspirational jesus life poor sympathy the-one unconditional-love value works worth Criss Jami
42f3830 Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world. awakening awareness enlightenment giving inspirational know-thyself self-realization service spiritual wisdom-quotes Ramana Maharshi
2330b80 Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource. bond giving recognition relationship resource romance Bell Hooks
b1edd16 Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to learn how to give, but we forget about accepting things, which can be much harder than giving.... Accepting another person's gift is allowing him to express his feelings for you. giving receiving Alexander McCall Smith
b2bb823 Generosity is not in giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is in giving me that which you need more than I do. giving Kahlil Gibran
8f0592f Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like. Remember, it is not the size of a gift, it is its quality and the amount of mental attachment you overcome that count. So don't bankrupt yourself on a momentary positive impulse, only to regret it later. Give thought to giving. Give small things, carefully, and observe the mental processes going along with the act of releasing the little thing you liked. (53) (Quote is actually Robert A F Thurman but Huston Smith, who only wrote the introduction to my edition, seems to be given full credit for this text.) generosity gift giving non-attachment practice releasing simplicity Huston Smith
0802171 Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I think there must also be a prevenient courage that allows us to be brave - that is, to acknowledge that there is more beauty than our eyes can bear, that precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm. And therefore, this courage allows us, as the old men said, to make ourselves useful. It allows us to be generous, which is another way of saying exactly the same thing. brave courage generous giving grace kindness life love stewardship Marilynne Robinson
de2f1eb It is wrong to ask for more than you give freely. In this way, we come to resemble what we hate. freedom giving Stephen R. Donaldson
338a657 God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using to alleviate the misery of unevangelized, uneducated, unmedicated, and unfed millions. The evidence that many professing Christians have been deceived by this doctrine is how little they give and how much they own. God has prospered them. And by an almost irresistible law of consumer culture (baptized by a doctrine of health, wealth, and prosperity) they have bought bigger (and more) houses, newer (and more) cars, fancier (and more) clothes, better (and more) meat, and all manner of trinkets and gadgets and containers and devices and equipment to make life more fun. They will object: Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper his people? Indeed! God increases our yield, so that by giving we can prove our yield is not our god. God does not prosper a man's business so that he can move from a Ford to a Cadillac. God prospers a business so that 17,000 unreached people can be reached with the gospel. He prospers the business so that 12 percent of the world's population can move a step back from the precipice of starvation. compassion evangelism giving gospel greed hunger need prosperity sharing starvation stewardship John Piper
0c754eb Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive. give giving receive receiving Kahlil Gibran
aaff25d God comes right out and tells us why he gives us more money than we need. It's not so we can find more ways to spend it. It's not so we can indulge ourselves and spoil our children. It's not so we can insulate ourselves from needing God's provision. It's so we can give and give generously (2 Corinthians 8:14; 9:11) excess generosity giving less money more selfishness sharing spending spoil stewardship Randy Alcorn
bf36e28 For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles. giving language Barry Lopez
b8723a2 Oh! if the good hearts had the fat purses, how much better everything would go! giving goodness les-misérables wealth Victor Hugo
793c75a Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard of giving. (Look again at 2 Corinthians 8:14 and 9:11). bonus christianity corinthians excess giving god income increase raise scripture sharing standard-of-living stewardship Randy Alcorn
64c706d Every man has within him only one life and one nature ... It behooves a man to look within himself and turn to the best dedication possible those endowments he has from his Maker. You do no wrong in questioning what once you held to be right for you, if now it has come to seem wrong. Put away all thought of being bound. We do not want you bound. No one who is not free can give freely. conduct-of-life free-will freedom giving life self-determination Ellis Peters
bd80beb Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper His people? Indeed! God increases our yield so that by giving we can prove that our yield is not our god. God does not prosper a man's business so he can move from a Ford to a Cadillac. God prospers a business so that thousands of unreached peoples can be reached with the gospel. giving mission missionary money wealth John Piper
087b7fd Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left. giving self-sacrifice Fulton J. Sheen
36dbedc The most powerful thought is a prayerful thought. When I'm praying for you, I am praying for my own peace of mind. I can only have for myself what I am willing to wish for you. blessings-quotes charity compassion empathy generosity giving inner-peace kindness peace-of-mind power-of-love power-of-thoughts prayer prayer-quotes prayerful-habits prayerful-life prayers-answered prosperity selflessness sharing thoughtful wish-creation wishes-fulfilled Marianne Williamson
bf78738 Unless we learn how to humbly tell each other our giving stories, our churches will not learn to give. encouragement example giving stewardship stories Randy Alcorn
966553e "A disciple does not ask, "How much can I keep?" but, "How much more can I give?" Whenever we start to get comfortable with our level of giving, it's time to raise it again." comfort disciple discipline faith give giving keep obedience share stewardship trust Randy Alcorn
54b1f36 Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in light of Scripture and human need. giving greed need scripture sharing stewardship Randy Alcorn
600ef0c Christians are God's delivery people, through whom he does his giving to a needy world. We are conduits of God's grace to others. Our eternal investment portfolio should be full of the most strategic kingdom-building projects to which we can disburse God's funds. giving grace investment-kingdom need stewardship Randy Alcorn
e18265d To turn the tide of materialism in the Christian community, we desperately need bold models of kingdom-centered living. Despite our need to do it in a way that doesn't glorify people, we must hear each other's stories about giving or else our people will not learn to give. christianity community encouragement example giving humility kingdom learning materialism modelling models stewardship stories Randy Alcorn
a8cbcc3 Are your goals backed by burning desire or are you giving the Universe mixed signals? giving goals mixed-signals seek universe Azim Jamal & Brian Tracy
b92d6d6 I propitiated the knife-wielding deities with presents of books. The gifts to them and the head of nursing were also meant to acknowledge that although people get paid to do their jobs, you cannot pay someone to do their job passionately and wholeheartedly. Those qualities are not for sale; they are themselves gifts that can only be given freely, and are in many, many fields. giving passion work Rebecca Solnit
ff4b55e "Experiment with giving away this energy--in little ways at first--directing it toward yourself and toward others with no thought of gain or return. Give more than you think you can, trusting that you are richer than you think. Celebrate this richness. Give as if you had inexhaustible wealth. This is called "kingly giving." giving mindfulness Jon Kabat-Zinn
1de7812 Given our abundance, the burden of proof should always be on keeping, not giving. Why would you not give? We err by beginning with the assumption that we should keep or spend the money God entrusts to us. Giving should be the default choice. Unless there is a compelling reason to spend it or keep it, we should give it. giving money stewardship Randy Alcorn
2af4d3d It's curious that the Church has become the most tightfisted at the very time in history when God has provided most generously. There's considerable talk about the end of the age, and many people seem to believe that Christ will return in their lifetime. But why is it that expecting Christ's return hasn't radically influenced our giving? Why is it that people who believe in the soon return of Christ are so quick to build their own financial empires--which prophecy tells us will perish--and so slow to build God's kingdom? giving kingdom-of-god return-of-christ stewardship Randy Alcorn
4f7e9f7 Giving up everything must mean giving over everything to kingdom purposes, surrendering everything to further the one central cause, loosening our grip on everything. For some of us, this may mean ridding ourselves of most of our possessions. But for all of us it should mean dedicating everything we retain to further the kingdom. (For true disciples, however, it cannot mean hoarding or using kingdom assets self-indulgently.) discipleship giving grip hoarding kingdom possessions purpose selfish sharing surrender Randy Alcorn
15f4d01 Vincent took them in the full spirit of friendship which knows that the difference between giving and taking is purely temporal. giving taking van-gogh Irving Stone
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