Some people can be so generous when they give nothing away!

You are the hands and feet of Christ in this world to your generation.

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

For it is in giving that we receive.

As we draw on the grace of God He increases voluntary poverty all along the line. Always give the best you have got every time; never think about who you are giving it to; let other people take it or leave it as they choose. Pour out the best you have, and always be poor....

People do more for their fellows than return favors and punish cheaters. They often perform generous acts without the slightest hope for payback ranging from leaving a tip in a restaurant they will never visit again to throwing themselves on a live grenade to save their brothers in arms. [Robert] Trivers together with the economists...

To paraphrase Lucretius, there’s nothing more useful than to watch a man or woman in times of contagious deadly disease peril combined with his or her assumptions of financial adversity to discern what kind of man or woman they really are.

When we have balance over body, mind, and soul — and with the power of spirit — anything can be overcome to achieve a positive result. As a spiritual being, we have unlimited power at our command. We can work on these within powers of ours: inner strength, willpower, courage, compassion, generosity, and LOVE. At...

Laughter is sweet when enjoyed alone. But it becomes sweeter when you enjoy it together with the people around you. Your success must lead to the success others.

Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kindness.

You give but little when you give of your possessions.It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

With genius, as with beauty — all, well almost all, is forgiven.

If you can live with less of what you have. You can be more of who you are.

Jesus seemed to believe that the key to generosity wasn’t having more, but being content with what you already have.

Love is a gift that costs nothing to give. Love is also the most valuable thing in the world. Think about that next time you’re tempted to call me a cheap bastard because I didn’t buy you a birthday present.

A man cannot own more than his heart can love.

Generosity is not always tax deductible.

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.

We salute our fans for raising this money throughout our 2005 race season. All this money is raised through the generosity of our fans through our 50/50 drawing at each race. I also want to thank the many volunteers that donate their valuable time to run the drawing.

Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.

You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

The brief story of the supper at Emmaus carries within it a number of core principles of the Christian life as Luke understands it. First, the idea that one comes to know Christ through acts of generosity to other human beings. It is because of their kindness to a stranger that the disciples find the...

I see the good in the world because I choose to. I don’t imagine that it’s there; it’s there waiting to be noticed.

It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.

True kindness is not necessarily giving something to someone who is down, but showing them that they still have something to give to get back up.

But the minimum human duty is to serve others: it is no great attainment.

Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

As spiritual searchers we need to become freer and freer of the attachment to our own smallness in which we get occupied with me-me-me. Pondering on large ideas or standing in front of things which remind us of a vast scale can free us from acquisitiveness and competitiveness and from our likes and dislikes. If...

The death of Robert G. Ingersoll, on July 21, 1899, was one of the most widely — noted events of that year in the civilized world. It was also one of the most widely and profoundly regretted, — the most deeply deplored. Everywhere, the wisest knew (and the noblest felt) that the cause of humanity...

Every citizen has to guess the value of the gift which every friend will send him so that he may send one of equal value, whether he can afford it or not.

Do we run from money in fear of being a slave to it? I know I did that for a while. I don’t think that’s the answer, though.I think the answer is our mission. Are you on a mission? Not only with your money, but with your life – are you on a mission?I have...

I began to enjoy my own generosity; I felt the pleasure of pleasing others, especially as this was accompanied by money-power. I was paying for them; they were grateful, they had to be; and they could no longer see me as a failure.

He’s a great guy. He’d give you the shirt off his back if you asked. In fact, I’m wearing his shirt now, and I’m staring at his nipples.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

pre-economy of the economy,” its zero-level, that is, exchange as the reciprocal relation of two non-productive expenditures. If the gift belongs to Master and exchange to the Servant, potlatch is the paradoxical exchange between Masters. Potlach is simultaneously the zero-level of civility, the paradoxical point at which restrained civility and obscene consumption overlap, the point...

Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly...

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

Ah, they said. Qué bueno. And after and for a long time to come he’d have reason to evoke the recollection of those smiles and to reflect upon the good will which provoked them for it had power to protect and to confer honor and to strengthen resolve and it had power to hear men...

One of the first conditions of happiness is the ability to take pleasure in other people’s happiness.

It’s like this: if you have one piece of cake, and you eat it, that’s fine.If you have two pieces of cake, you should probably share some with a friend. But maybe not. Occasionally we could all use two pieces of cake.But if you have a whole cake, and you eat *all* of it, that’s...

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

Our gifts are very pleasant to Him. He loves to see us lay our time, our talents, our substance on the altar not for the value of what we give, but for the sake of the motive from which the gift springs.

When God opens a new page in your life, make photocopies of it, read it and share it with other people. Some may hear it when you read it, others may tear it when you share it.

If you will only consider, you will remember many a person of whom the world never heard and will never hear, whose years have been as full of generosity, loyalty to duty, faith in God, fidelity to every day’s work, as those of Franklin or Garfield, Lincoln or Emerson. They, also, have put their hands...

Generosity is not giving me that which I need that you do, but it is giving me that which you need more that I do.

Generosity has little to do with giving gifts, and everything to do with giving space to others to be who they are.

So unworldly was he–or so capricious–that he frequently refused his help to the powerful and wealthy where the problem made no appeal to his sympathies, while he would devote weeks of most intense application to the affairs of some humble client whose case presented those strange and dramatic qualities which appealed to his imagination and...

Here’s the thing: You can be materialistic and poor. You can also be content and rich. It has nothing to do with your income and it has everything to do with your heart. You don’t need to earn more money in order to be generous with your money. Some people use that as an excuse...