Inspirational Quotes on Giving

“Teach us to give and not to count the cost.”

“Giving is true having.”

“After giving something to God, you are no longer accountable for it. Your blessing is based on your giving, not on what others do with the gift.”

“If I and a need meet, God must have had in mind my filling it.”

“If I leave behind me 10 (pounds), you and all mankind bear witness against that I lived and died a thief and a robber.”

“Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.”

“The desire of love is to give. The desire of lust is to take.”

“Having pressed the grapes of service, we drink life's sweetest wine —the wine of giving. We are at our best when we are giving. In fact, we are most like God when we are giving.”

“You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.”

“God has a way of giving by the cartloads to those who give away by shovelfuls.”

“For it is in giving that we receive.”

“Giving is the true barometer of love.”

“Get all you can, save all you can and give all you can.”

“As the sword of the best tempered metal is most flexible, so the truly generous are most pliant and courteous in their behavior to their inferiors.”

“You and I must be perfectly willing to part with anything at any moment. It matters not whether I leave two thousand dollars or merely two. What matters is whether I can leave what ever I have without a twinge of regret.”

“Heaven is eternal. The earth endures. The reason for heaven's eternity and earth's endurance is 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.”

“For in self-giving, if anywhere, we touch a rhythm not only of all creation but of all being.”

“In all of my years of service to my Lord, I have discovered a truth that has never failed and has never been compromised. That truth is that it is beyond the realm of possibilities that one has the ability to out give God. Even if I give the whole of my worth to Him, He will find a way to give back to me much more than I gave.”

“Avarice, greed, concupiscence and so forth are all based on the mathematical truism that the more you get, the more you have. The remark of that it is more blessed to give than to receive is based on the human truth that the more you give away in love, the more you are. It is not just for the sake of other people that tells us to give rather than get, but for our own sakes too.”

“He, who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.”