Giving Quotes
No man can do a great and enduring work for God who is not a man of prayer, and no man can be a man of prayer who does not give much time to praying.
It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but the earnest man gets access to the ear of God.
Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
My love for him was so exquisitely pure that if we all were capable of giving and receiving such a beautiful gift the world would be a far more brilliant place; I think we'd all be poets.
We're already separated that's official but there's still a window of hope left open that perhaps someday we could give things another try.
Our mother Eve, who tasted of the tree, Giving to Adam what she held most dear, Was simply good, and had no power to see.
I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.
Every time fans turned on the television or watched the Dallas Cowboys, I wanted to give them the performance of a lifetime.
It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking.
A beneficent person is like a fountain watering the earth, and spreading fertility; it is, therefore, more delightful to give than to receive.
The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.
To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. It not infrequently happens that those who hunger for hope give their allegiance to him who offers them a grievance.
The essential difference between the unhappy, neurotic type person and him of great joy is the difference between get and give.
What makes people laugh? . . . It's a happy marriage between a person who needs to laugh and someone who's got one to give.
Any thought which tends to inspire, to comfort, and to give peace to the mind is good.
I am suggesting that quality in undergraduate education means giving students a perspective that is global.
I think that if you start teaching about giving back and helping other people young, that will be a given for your child their whole life.
What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing... if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.
Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion.
Just because you have so much to give does not mean that they'll all be accepted. There's more to giving than just giving.
As we give the gifts of compassion and humility, our lives become demonstrations of the truth of God's Word.
there is less alms-giving in America than in any other Christian country on the face of the globe. It is not in the temper of the people either to give or to receive.
There is nothing better than giving up everything and stepping into a passionate love relationship with God, the God of the universe who made galaxies, leaves, laughter, and me and you.
He that gives all, though but little, gives much; because God looks not to the quantity of the gift, but to the quality of the givers.
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
The greatest gift that you can give another person is to gracefully receive whatever it is that they want to give us.
All of the exoteric teachings are only designed to give you the type of life that will allow you to practice the esoteric teachings.
Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a physical theory, a scientist would certainly be expected to give precise information?
If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character of uselessness
Does veganism require a “sacrifice”? Yes. It requires that you give up that which you never had any right to in the first place.
She took my hand and pulled me after her, her shoulders giving off a sweet peppermint concoction that the bodies of young women sometimes produce to make my life more difficult.
I felt attacked because people rejected me. They didn't say "we can give you money to do something else if you want," they just said "no, this movie cannot be done" and I said "okay, so I'll do it!"
Giving the best to others are giving the best to us. The value of life is not based on how long we live. But, how much can we contribute to others in our society ?
Don't give way to heedlessness or to intimacy with sensual delight - for a heedful person, absorbed in jhana, attains an abundance of ease.
Who is the honest man? He that doth still and strongly good pursue To God, his neighbor, and himself most true: Whom neither force nor fawning can Unpin, or wrench from giving all their due.
Come, come to Him who made thy heart; Come weary and oppressed; To come to Jesus is thy part; His part, to give thee rest.
We can walk without fear, full of hope and courage and strength to do His will, waiting for the endless good which He is always giving as fast as He can get us able to take it in.
A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.
I'm glad He had the never while staring into space, to give this universe a time and place.