Giving Quotes

The Dark Powers have to give before they can take.

~ Stephen King

The Dead Sea in the Middle East receives fresh water, but it has no outlet, so it doesn't pass the water out. It receives beautiful water from the rivers, and the water goes dank. I mean, it just goes bad. And that's why it is the Dead Sea. It receives and does not give. In the end generosity is the best way of becoming more, more, and more joyful.

~ Desmond Tutu

We don't need a degree to learn the art of giving. We just need a heart.

~ Abaida Mahmood

We have to begin giving them the whole truth about premarital sex and the difficulties it can cause.

~ James C. Dobson

There's a new kind of Giving-I remember when Philanthropy was inconspicuous and anonymous.Now it has turned in to Look at me, I just saved the world kind of show.

~ Charmaine J. Forde

Heaven is eternal. The earth endures.The reason for heaven's eternity and earth's enduranceis that they do not live for themselves only, and thereby live forever.The sage steps back but remains in front,the outside always within.Self is realized through selflessness.

~ Sam Hamill

A father should do more - a father should give more to his children than he takes.

~ Rick Riordan

The giving hand is considered powerful, the receiving hand is considered weak. It’s better to give than to receive.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Giving is the only gift we should all endeavour to give the world each day.

~ Auliq Ice

People die of love. I’m one of the few who’ll admit it. That doesn’t mean it isn’t true.Take all the people who died yesterday, or last week, or last year. Subtract all the suicides and the so-called accidents of the brokenhearted. Take away the men who got blown away for being in the wrong bed at the wrong moment, the women in abusive marriages who died of cancer because they couldn’t find any other exit from their lives. All the AIDS deaths except from the needles and the transfusions, the ones they call the innocent victims. Like if you have sex, you’re guilty. Deserved just what you got.Now tell me who all you’ve got left.Without love the world would be overpopulated, except that without love it wouldn’t be populated at all. Love giveth and love taketh away and all that crap. You’ll probably say all those people died from the lack of love, but I say it’s two sides of the same coin. So it’s the same coin.

~ Catherine Ryan Hyde

If the gift of God is for personal use and gain, God would have used it personally

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The Holy Spirit never uses guilt or shame to persuade us to give. For that matter, he never persuades us to give in the first place. That's called manipulation, a device employed by a different spirit.

~ Ron Brackin

Just like the strangers who'd fed me in El Salvador or South Africa, I was going to have to see and understand the hunger of other, different men and women, and make a gesture of welcome, and eat with them. And just as I hadn't deserved any of what had been given to me—the fish, the biscuits, the tea so abundantly poured out back in those years—I didn't deserve communion myself now. I wasn't getting it because I was good. I wasn't getting it because I was special. I certainly didn't get to pick who else was good enough, holy enough, deserving enough, to receive it. It wasn't a private meal. The bread on that Table had to be shared with everyone in order for me to really taste it.

~ Sara Miles

It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding; And to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving.

~ Kahlil Gibran

We who were born into privilege and opportunity were given these gifts with an expectation: to give them away.

~ Jeff Goins

Giving is a stream of abundance.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Giving him our plans is giving him ourselves.

~ Suzanne Eller

The mutual practice of giving and receiving is an everyday ritual when we know true love.

~ Bell Hooks

Giving back is so important. Give back to your communities in whatever way you can. With donations, items or with your time. The Universe blesses a generous heart.

~ Eileen Anglin

Whatever you sow, you will reap.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Extravagant love, as in every generation before us, has been ridiculed and scorned. it is seen as wasteful and reckless overspending. But extravagant love, the offering of everything, the emptying of the pockets of our life, is the essence of true Christianity.

~ Eric Ludy

Giving freely is sharing freely.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When you plant the seeds, wait patiently to see the ripen fruits.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You can NEVER be poor by giving and showing love to others.

~ Kemi Sogunle

Giving develops discipline and an awareness of others' misfortune, which helps you to focus on what is truly important.

~ Steve Repak

Real love never fails, never fades, and the greatest expression of it is giving.

~ Gena Showalter

You cannot receive until you learn to release.

~ Kemi Sogunle

...and the minute I stopped giving-the love ceased.

~ Miriamelizabeth

Giving feels fantastic and for there to be a Giver, there must be a Receiver, so allowing yourself to receive is an act of love.

~ Rebecca O’dwyer

Listening is among the most generous ways to give. When a loved one talks to us— whether their words appear to be deep or shallow— listen. For in some way, they are baring their souls.

~ Jan Karon

Giving saves lives. Especially the giver’s.

~ Shannon Kopp

I thought of you when I read this quote from Come Rain or Come Shine (A Mitford Novel) by Jan Karon -Listening is among the most generous ways to give. When a loved one talks to us— whether their words appear to be deep or shallow— listen. For in some way, they are baring their souls.

~ Jan Karon

You often say, “I would give, but only to the deserving.”The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture.They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.

~ Kahlil Gibran

More for others then yourself.

~ Sixeye

Giving tithes alone is not enough for financial prosperity.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Love without sharing is torture. Love without giving is death.

~ Sunday Adelaja

It is beautiful, beautiful to give; one of the very most beautiful things in life.

~ Elizabeth Von Arnim

Have you noticed that everything in Nature, gives back to Nature?

~ Donald L. Hicks

The more you get, the more you get to give.

~ J.r. Rim

Active love doesn’t ask: 'What does this person have to offer me?' Rather: 'What do I have to offer this person?

~ Cole Ryan