Giving Quotes - Page 5

If I give with the motive to get, regardless of the degree to which that motive besets me, I will walk away impoverished and I will leave those to whom I have given just as impoverished as I have now found myself.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

I cannot calculate nor attempt to manage sacrifice, for to do so is to attempt to sacrifice comfortably. And it is in the attempt to sacrifice comfortably that I begin to realize that the desire for comfort is in reality the demand that I put myself first, and there is nothing of sacrifice in that.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

I am thankful that in the giving we receive, and what we receive is the satisfaction of knowing that whatever we give is always bigger once we’ve given it away.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

People of God are always people who care about other people and it always comes at some cost.

D'Andre Lampkin

Giving when you can is generosity. Giving when you can't is sacrifice.

J.R. Rim

Sacrifice is a noun in my vocabulary that should be a verb in my life.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Giving is normal and anybody can give but to sacrifice during giving is the matter!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

To calculate sacrifice is to attempt to sacrifice safely, and safe sacrifice is one of the most outrageous oxymoron’s I can think of.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

The only things I truly keep are those things that I give away.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

If I’m asking what kind of ‘return’ I should be expecting on the sacrifices I’m making, I have in that question revealed the need to ‘return’ that question to wherever I found it and have the word ‘return’ edited out of it.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

...the true value of an offering isn't measured by how much we give. It's measured by how much we keep...By definition, a sacrifice must involve sacrifice...

Mark Batterson

If I am not touching a life, I am not touching life.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Nothing shows our hearts like sacrifice. When we are willing not only to give from our excess, but to embrace some personal loss or disadvantage for the sake of showing generosity toward others, we say loudly and clearly…that we have a greater love than ourselves and our comforts.

David Mathis

When in doubt as to what you should do, err on the side of 'giving.

Tony Cleaver

Leadership is service, not position.

Tim Fargo

The image of God infused in us never sees the light of day in the service of self, but it becomes the light of day in the service of others.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Our greatest dreams and desires abide in the mental and spiritual realm. In order to transfer them in the physical plane we need to invert subject and object. You will receive from the world what you deeply long to receive the day when you give to the world what you deeply long to receive. Today could be that day.

Franco Santoro

If we have the power and the means, then we must help.

Seth Adam Smith

Sacrifice” and “self” both begin with the same letter, but the spelling is way different after that.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually cost me something. And what pretending of this sort gives me is the gift of a pretend life.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

A smile is not to take, it's given.

Will Advise

To consume the best for yourself and give the crumbs to God is blasphemy. A heart that truly worships is a heart that gives its best to God in time and substance. A heart that truly worships God gives generously to the causes of God---causes that God cares deeply about. I have to wonder whether someday we may wake up to discover that all our incestous spending on ourselves and our frantic construction of excessively luxurious places of worship---even as we ignore, for the most part, the hurting and the deprived of the world---filled God's heart with pain.

Ravi Zacharias

I hear preached in our charismatic churches, which basically borders on sowing and reaping, giving and receiving. I thought there must be a different format to that message

Sunday Adelaja

You are the gift that only you would have to give.

Silvia Hartmann

I would much prefer to enlarge your life by giving you the gift of my life, rather than gifting your life to material obesity with frivolous trinkets.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

We have errantly romanticized love as something we freely get verses something we sacrifice for in the giving.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in itsvalue.

Charles Dudley Warner

The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

Baltasar Gracián

While real sacrifice is committed to the result, it relishes the effort

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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.)

Huston Smith

What is the spirit of Christmas, you ask? Let me give you the answer in a true story...On a cold day in December, feeling especially warm in my heart for no other reason than it was the holiday season, I walked through the store sporting a big grin on my face. Though most people were far too busy going about their business to notice me, one elderly gentleman in a wheelchair brought his eyes up to meet mine as we neared each other traveling opposite directions. He slowed in passing just long enough to speak to me."Now that's a Christmas smile if I ever saw one," he said.My lips stretched to their limit in response, and I thanked him for the compliment. Then we went our separate ways. But, as I thought about the man and how sweetly he'd touched me, I realized something simply wonderful! In that brief, passing interaction we'd exchanged heartfelt gifts!And that, my friend, is the spirit of Christ~mas.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Choose altruism, because selfishism is a lonely, cold, dark hole.

Richelle E. Goodrich

The Christmas spirit will elude you'til a selfless love consumes youand the joy of giving moves you.

Richelle E. Goodrich

..the best strategy for giving is a two-fold approach: a basic plan combined with a willingness to consider spontaneous giving when unique opportunities arise.

Andy Stanley

But I give best when I give from that deeper place; when I give simply, freely and generously, and sometimes for no particular reason. I give best when I give from my heart.

Steve Goodier

He who has experienced the mystery of the nature is full of life, full of love, full of joy. Radiance emanates from the whole existence itself, it does not know the meaning of holding back. It is pure giving-giving of love. For the great writers, love is like holding ice in hand, it just turns to water and they lose out their role but for a mystic the moment ice transforms to water love starts to flow.

Maitreya Rudrabhayananda

We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in.

Criss Jami

Respect all living things, and never take what you cannot give back, or destroy what you cannot create.

Bryant McGill

If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don't love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can't give anything else but that.

Gisele Bundchen

Sometimes, people you value the most may appreciate all the things you do for them. but that doesn't mean they value you as much you value them. you sacrifice for them and give them all the best because you want them to be happy and you believe they deserve it. You understand and accept them for everything that they are. There are times that you'll ran short and would fail to be at your best and they may take it againts you. you'll have your own share of your weaknesses and flaws and they may not understand you and accept you. You may have been lost at times and they may not look for you or care for you and that's okay. that's the thing about giving. you give without expecting, you give without regrets and you give whole heartedly and freely. For God will always bless you with more than what you give. and it's already fulfilling to see them somehow smile and became complete and still thankful because you did something good for them and that's all that matters.

Cristopher Capistrano

The best gift you can give yourself is to give to someone else

Manuel Corazzari

Although I’m seldom aware enough to see it, the greater cost regarding that which I possess was not what I paid for it, but what someone along the way sacrificed so that I might have the opportunity to pay for it.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

It's easier to take than to give. It's nobler to give than to take. The thrill of taking lasts a day. The thrill of giving lasts a lifetime.

Joan Marques

if the world will attain its utmost peace and stability;and contentions be limited, then the ideology, philosophy and mentality of people in the world should be shifted from the more you acquire the more valuable you are to the more you give the more important you are and with the mentality that giving is a sacred responsibility and not a competition

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Any self-realized being has access to the dynamic genius which nature gives all beings.

Bryant McGill

Whatever we are given is supposed to be given away, not kept.

Amanda Palmer

Unless we learn how to humbly tell each other our giving stories, our churches will not learn to give.

Randy Alcorn

Give and receive with gratitude. Do the former, without expectation of, the latter.

Jaeda DeWalt

By simple mathematics giving is key to the world you seek to live in. If I take I alone gain. If I give or share then two at least are enriched.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

Peace starts within. We are what we give.

Sal Di Leo

A giving attitude is the key to the door of abundance.

Debasish Mridha

Making oneself large involves intentionally making oneself small.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Only a prostitute will trade her valuables for money, so you shouldn't sell your God given ideas and talents for money, because you don't own it in any way but should be by a divine authority.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Girls should be taught at school that giving birth to an unnaturally over-sized western baby that no longer fits down the birth canal may lead to a multitude of long term health problems.

Steven Magee

We cherish reprobates, not for their cruelty, but for their little show of patronage.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Love’s value is not dependent on the person receiving it, but on the person giving it.

Jeffrey Fry

By choosing positivity you become a contender for the human spirit giving hope to those in need.

Bryant McGill

To make a choice not to sacrifice is to decide that I am better off allowing a life to perish than release the resources I possess that might allow it to thrive. And because of choices such as these, the life that I am really allowing to perish is mine.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

You will know who truly loves you when you ask them to do an uncoventional favor.

Michael Bassey Johnson

What many people do not understand is: It's not about who you think you know, but about who actually knows you. So better start giving today, be it giving everything at your job, or giving out lunch to that man. Start giving, and the world will know your true character!

Akilnathan Logeswaran

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