Quotes on Giving

I am ashamed of some christians because they have so much dependence on Parliment and the law of the land. Much good may Parliment ever do to true religion except by mistake! As to getting the law of the land to touch our religion, we earnestly cry, `Hands off! Leave us alone.' Your Sunday bills and all other forms of the act-of-Parliment religion seem to me to be all wrong. Give us a fair field and no favor, and our faith has no cause to fear. Christ wants no help from Caesar.

At books, or work, or healthy play,_x000D_ _x000D_ Let all my years be passed;_x000D_ _x000D_ That I may give for every day_x000D_ _x000D_ A good account at last.

The trade agreement which I had the privilege of signing with your Prime Minister last autumn is tangible evidence of the desire of the people of both countries to practice what they preach when they speak of the good neighbor. In the solution of the grave problems that face the world today, frank dealing, cooperation and a spirit of give and take between nations is more important than ever before.

Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don't give a damn.

We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.

Don't even wait until you've lost a pound. The minute you can push the plate away with food still on it, give yourself a pat on the back.

Great is the height I just scale, but the prospect of glory gives me strength.

Winning gives birth to hostility Losing, one lies down in pain. The calmed lie down with ease, having set winning and losing aside.

The more completely we give of ourselves, the more completely the world gives back to us.

Remember, the greatest gift to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest.

Give something, however small, to the one in need. For it is not small to one who has nothing. Neither is it small to God, if we have given what we could.

If beings knew, as I know, the results of giving & sharing, they would not eat without having given.

Allah the Exalted loves him who forgoes worldly life, the Angels love him who rejects the vices, and the Muslims love him who gives up greediness in respect of the Muslims.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

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

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

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

All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?

How is it that we do not die of love in seeing that God Himself could do no more than shed His divine blood for us drop by drop? When as man He was preparing for death, He made Himself our food in order to give us life. God becomes food, bread for his creatures. Is this not enough to make us die of love?

I shall assume that your silence gives consent.