Sharing Quotes

If I don't talk about it, it's either very displeasing or very precious to me.

~ Joyce Rachelle

One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone.

~ Shannon L. Alder

In a world of limited resources, our wealth is at the expense of the poor. To put it simply, if we have it, others cannot.

~ Richard J. Foster

I am not posing these questions only to the world at large. I query us who own Christ as our life. Can God be pleased by the vast and increasing inequities among us? Is he not grieved by our arrogant accumulation, while Christian brothers and sisters elsewhere languish and die? Is it not obligatory upon us to see beyond the nose of our own national interest, so that justice may roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever flowing stream? Is there not an obligation upon us to do justice, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with God is we want to live in his wonderful peace?

~ Richard J. Foster

I could really use someone else's smile today.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

God's people are not to accumulate stuff for tomorrow but to share indiscriminately with the scandalous and holy confidence that God will provide for tomorrow. Then we need not stockpile stuff in barns or a 401(k), especially when there is someone in need.

~ Shane Claiborne

Why are...poor people more ready to share their goods than rich people? The answer is easy: The poor have little to lose; the rich have more to lose and they are more attached to their possessions. Poverty provides a deeper motivation for understanding your neighbors, welcoming others and attending to those who are suffering. I would go so far as to say that poverty helps you understand what happiness is, what serenity is in life.

~ Piero Gheddo

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.

~ John Piper

The bread which you hold back belongs to the hungry; the coat, which you guard in your locked storage-chests, belongs to the naked; the footwear mouldering in your closet belongs to those without shoes. The silver that you keep hidden in a safe place belongs to the one in need. Thus, however many are those whom you could have provided for, so many are those whom you wrong.

~ Basil The Great

If you see your brother in need, it doesn't matter if you already gave somewhere else. You should be open to the idea of God using you to meet your brother's unexpected need.

~ Andy Stanley

Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we waste are what people need, things that would save them from dying. Frustrated? No, never.

~ Mother Teresa

Life is a sacred shared-life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The world must begin sharing again. We need more kindness. -Takua Kawirembeyju, Guarani Shaman of Paraguay

~ Nancy Connor

My mother had a kindness that embraced all life.She knew her place well and was comfortable in giving everything she had.This is the tradition of native women.

~ Dan George

God provides something to you through somebody. Thats same God can give something to somebody through you. If you make yourself a greedy traffic on the way and deprive the final destined owner of what you supposed to keep provisionally, you make God upset.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

While the people of Madrid seem to have resigned to selling almost anything - the one thing they have never given up on so far - is time. It is the one commodity that is never sold and always shared.

~ Lauren Klarfeld

Every night we stopped in a cabin where wood had been stacked, matches left, and canned goods laid out for the chance traveler. All the unknown host received in return was a scribbled note giving our thanks, any news we could think of, and our names. This whole system of northern hospitality was a gigantic chain, for while we were eating this man’s beans, he was undoubtedly farther up the trail, eating somebody else’s.

~ Benedict Freedman

Do not share your thoughts with people who think that what you are thinking is not worth thinking.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Beauvoir left their home wanting to call his wife and tell her how much he loved her, and then tell her what he believed in, and his fears and hopes and disappointments. To talk about something real and meaningful. He dialed his cell phone and got her. But the words got caught somewhere south of his throat. Instead he told her the weather had cleared, and she told him about the movie she'd rented. Then they both hung up.

~ Louise Penny

When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man when he gets all he can and saves all he can, does not give all he can, I have more hope for Judas Iscariot than for that man!

~ John Wesley

It is not how much you have that matters. But how much you share that is the most important.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Abundance isn't God's provision for me to live in luxury. It's his provision for me to help others live. God entrusts me with his money not to build my kingdom on earth, but to build his kingdom in heaven.

~ Randy Alcorn

When we suffer in silence, we think that we are alone, different, separate. When we share our stories of suffering, we find that we are the same.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

What good were special talents when there was no one to share them with?

~ Dave Cullen

The simple truth is that love is a part of who we are, not something that others give to us if we're worthy of it. We're taught that if we just find that right person, and that person falls in love with us, everything will be fine. We're not taught about recognizing the love that is a part of our spirits, the love that we radiate when we recognize the beauty and need in all the people that surround us. Love is ours to share, at all moments and in all situations, but for some reason we fear doing so.

~ Tom Walsh

We all have an opportunity and responsibility to create a legacy. A legacy which is resilient, sustainable and authentic. - Jim Cookson, Doctoral Student, Ashridge Business School, UK, August 2014

~ Jim Cookson

If you live life on your own terms it shouldn’t feel like a jail cell.

~ Shannon L. Alder

God pours out his choicest blessings on those who are anxious that nothing shall stick to their hands. Individuals who value the rainy day above the present agony of the world will get no blessing from God.

~ William Macdonald

Beware of leaders who prefer controlling 100 % of nothing over sharing a fortune.

~ Julion Okram

We all have scars, my beautiful one. They make us who we are, and if we let them, they bring us together.

~ Jocelyn Green

I am building a healthy support system and learning to use it readily.

~ Maureen Brady

...while God has done his part in creating a world capable of providing what we need, we have not done our part in the stewardship of it, in seeing that it gets to the end of the line, to the poorest and neediest--the children.

~ Wess Stafford

Love is not what others feel about you its what feeling you share with others.

~ Swavin Joysury

I feel that all knowledge should be in the free-trade zone. Your knowledge, my knowledge, everybody's knowledge should be made use of. I think people who refuse to use other people's knowledge are making a big mistake. Those who refuse to share their knowledge with other people are making a great mistake, because we need it all. I don't have any problem about ideas I got from other people. If I find them useful, I'll just ease them right in and make them my own.

~ Myles Horton

Pain withheld becomes hate, pain shared becomes love.

~ Seekerohan

Let's take a walk. You can show me some of your memories and I'll show you some of mine.

~ Adam Berlin

God doesn't always bring you the entire truth. He sometimes gives it to you in pieces, in order to learn. Regardless, it is the piece that you got today that will renew your faith for tomorrow.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Food—like art, like music— brings people together, it’s true. It begins, though, with a private experience, a single person stirred, moved, and wanting company in that altered stated. So we say, “You have to taste this.” We say, “Please, take a bite.

~ Jessica Fechtor

As a dinner guest I gratefully eat just about anything that's set before me, because graciousness among friends is dearer to me than any other agenda.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

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