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Quote Library Generosity If one has not given everything, one has given nothing. --Georges Guynemer It’s not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts. -- Addison Walker We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye... The hand is the cutting edge of the mind Source: Little Zen Companion, Schiller. So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of generous acts. -- Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus puerique, 1881 Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself." -- Erasmus A person who seeks help for a friend, while needy himself, will be answered first. -- The Talmud When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die. -- Eleanor Roosevelt The greatest end of life is not knowledge but action. -- Thomas Henry Huxley As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I became civilized. -- Ohiyesa Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understanding; and he is the truest philosopher who can forget himself. -- William Hazlitt Only a life lived for others is worth living. -- Albert Einstein From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men -- above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received. -- Albert Einstein There was man, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away, the more he had." -- John Bunyan You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love... by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves. -- St. Francis de Sales Charity is the bone shared with the dog when you are just as hungry as the dog." -- Jack London He who refreshes others will himself be refreshed. -- Prov. 11 To do good is to do so in the minute particular. The general good is the refuge of the fool and the scoundrel. -- William Blake Cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door. -- William Blake A soul occupied with great ideas best performs small duties. -- Harriet Martineau We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. -- Goethe Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway. -- John Wayne The main emotion of the adult American who has had all the advantages of wealth, education, and culture is disappointment. -- John Cheever Our calling and purpose as followers of Christ is to love God completely, to love self correctly, and to love others compassionately. -- Kenneth Boa The only cure for the love of power is the power of love. -- Sherri McAdam Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. -- Dr. Karl Menninger There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his. -- Eric Hoffer (1902–83), U.S. philosopher. The Passionate State of Mind, aph. 236 (1955). Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment. -- Jean de La Bruyère (1645–96), French writer, moralist. Characters, "Of the Heart," aph. 47 (1688). Christianity makes sense in this world as well as in the next. -- John Locke, philosopher The church is the only cooperative society in the world that exists for the benefit of its nonmembers. -- Bishop William Temple We must all go and work in the garden. -- Voltaire It is the prodigals&ldots; that the memory of their Father’s house comes back. If the son had lived economically he would never have thought of returning. – Simone Weil Giving All that is not given... is lost. -- Dominique Lapierre Money-giving is a very good criterion of a person’s mental health. Generous people are rarely mentally ill people. -- Dr. Karl A. Menninger God doesn’t ask us to give till it hurts -- he simply asks us to give it all. -- Bill Milliken We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give." -- Winston Churchill To give away money is to win a victory over the dark powers that oppress us. -- Gordon Cosby, Gain all you can, save all you can, give all you can. -- John Wesley If one has not given everything, one has given nothing. --Georges Guynemer The smallest good deed is worth a thousand grand intentions Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you." - Luke 6:37-38 " One man gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty. " - Prov. 11:24 "For He maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof." (Job 36:27). If there is no vapour ascending, how then can there be a condensing of the clouds into rain? If there be no scattering of seed, how then can there be an increase of harvest? If there be no outflow of blessing from our hearts to others, how then shall we in turn inherit a blessing? Give and it shall be given unto you. The more we "bless the Lord," the more He gathers up those "vapours" and multiplies and increases until He pours upon us blessings of an hundredfold. --Ray Prinzing It is
more blessed to give than to receive. God
loves a cheerful giver. He that
hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord. With
malice toward none; with charity for all. He who
waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything. There are three kinds of givers -- the flint, the sponge and the honeycomb. To get anything out of a flint you must hammer it. And then you get only chips and sparks. To get water out of a sponge you must squeeze it, and the more you use pressure, the more you will get. But the honeycomb just overflows with its own sweetness. Which kind of giver are you? Giving with glad and generous hearts has a way of routing out the tough old miser within us. Even the poor need to know that they can give. Just the very act of letting go of money, or some other treasure, does something within us. It destroys the demon greed. -- Richard J. Foster, Money, Sex & Power. "I was just a child," related a retired Baptist preacher, "when one spring day my father called me to go with him to old man Russell's blacksmith shop. He had left a rake and a hoe to be repaired and they were ready, fixed like new. Father handed over a silver dollar for repairing them but Mr. Russell refused to take it. 'No,' he said, 'there's no charge for that little job.' But father insisted. And if I live a thousand years," said the preacher, "I'll never forget that great blacksmith's reply. 'Sid,' he said to my father, 'Can't you let a man do somethin' just to stretch his soul?'" It is estimated that if the widow's mite had been deposited at the "First National Bank, Jerusalem" to draw four percent interest semi-annually, the fund today would total $4,800,000,000,000,000,000,000. If a bank on earth could multiply the widow's mite to such an astronomical figure, think what treasures this dedicated woman will have in heaven where "moth and rust doth not corrupt." Giving is the highest expression of potency. --Erich Fromm If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. --Bob Hope It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. --Ralph Waldo Emerson Author Thomas Carlyle tells how, when he was a boy, a beggar came to the door. His parents were out and he was alone in the house. On a boyish impulse, he broke into his own savings bank and gave the beggar all that was in it, and he tells us that never before or since did he know such sheer happiness as came to him in that moment. There is indeed joy in giving. Seven
Ways To Give: "Go
give to the needy sweet charity's bread. No man was ever honored for what he received. Honor is the reward for what he gave. You can give without loving, but you can't love without giving. We heard of a man and woman who gave a sizeable contribution to the church to honor the memory of their son who lost his life in the war. When the announcement was made of the generous donation, a woman whispered to her husband, "Let's give the same amount for our boy!" Her husband said, "What are you talking about? Our son wasn't killed." "That's just the point," she said. "Let's give it as an expression of our gratitude to God for sparing his life!" First, give yourself to God. You may be sure he'll look after what is his. He gives twice who gives quickly. Italian proverb You have never really lived until you've done something for somebody who can never repay you. Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. He who
gives when he is asked has waited too long. The best thing you can give someone is a chance. If you
are not generous with a meager income, you will never be generous
with abundance. You only keep what you give away. R. E. Phillips Do your giving while you're living, so you're knowing where it's going. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. A gift, though small, is welcome. -- Greek proverb A hospital visitor saw a nurse tending to the sores of a leprosy patient, and said, "I'd never do that for a million dollars!" The nurse answered, "Neither would I. But I do it for Jesus for nothing." Baylor University is a fine institution in Beaumont, Texas. The Christian who gave the money for building that school later lost all his property. Men of the world asked him, "Don't you wish you had the money back that you put into that school?" He replied, "Not at all. It is all that I have saved. If I had kept that money, I would have lost it too. I am thankful that I gave that building when I did." Plenty of people are willing to give God credit, yet few are willing to give Him cash. Let us give up our work, our plans, ourselves, our lives, our loved ones, our influence, our all, right into God's hand; and then, when we have given all to Him, there will be nothing left for us to be troubled about. -- Hudson Taylor If a man's religion does not affect his use of money, that man's religion is vain. -- Hugh Martin Goals Far away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. -- Louisa May Alcott Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to bet better than yourself. -- William Faulkner It is a poor memory indeed that only works backwards. -- Unknown Never mistake motion for action. -- Ernest Hemingway Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was." -- Dag Hammaarskjold God’s -- Creativity Anyone
can count the number of seeds in an apple, God’s -- Control I believe the will of God prevails; without him all human reliance is vain; without the assistance of that Divine Being I cannot succeed; with that assistance I cannot fail. -- Abraham Lincoln God’s -- Existence I felt something more, like stabs of joy. These pointed to something other and outer. -- C. S. Lewis God’s -- Generosity God is more anxious to bestow his blessings on us than we are to receive them. -- Augustine God’s -- Goodness "It
seems too good to be true." God’s -- Provision All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me. -- Augustine God’s -- Love Our experience on earth makes it difficult for us to apprehend a good without a catch in it somewhere. -- Charles Williams God defined: "The One who loves." – Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics It cannot be that any creature should know him as he is and not desire him. -- George MacDonald We are living in the time of God’s patience. -- Mennonite phrase. The reason the mass of men fear God, and at bottom dislike Him, is because they rather distrust his heart, and fancy Him all brain like a watch. -- Herman Melville An Irish priest was on a walking tour of a rural parish when he saw an old peasant kneeling by the side of the road, praying. Pressed, the priest said to the man, "You must be very close to God." The peasant looked up from his prayers, thought for a moment, and then smiled, "Yes, he’s very fond of me." – Brennan Manning, God’s -- Power I cannot believe that God is a weak left-hander. -- Wolfgang Pauli While translating the New Testament I discovered its truth to be pulsing with life and power. I felt like an electrician, working with wiring while the power was still on. -- J. B. Phillips God’s -- Wisdom God uses lust to impel man to marriage, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. -- Martin Luther Golf Most people play golf in order to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise. -- Roger Simon Golf is a good walk spoiled. --Mark Twain If
you want to take long walks, take long walks. Good Deeds In nothing do men more nearly approach the Gods than by doing good to their fellow man. -- Cicero Good Life And the wind shall say: "Here were decent people: Their only monument the asphalt road and a thousand lost golf balls." -- T.S. Elliot, The Rock The pleasures of life men acquire by difficulty. -- Augustine The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination. -- Carl Rogers Goodness We
can enjoy knowing that we were good to life, Gossip The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. --Oscar Wilde Government For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. --Bob Wells War is just another government program. -- Joseph Sobran Somehow, and probably it is in the very nature of things, a government office is below the level of a private office. -- Thomas Alva Edison Government is the agency of coercion that has flags in front of its offices. -- Harry Browne The government that can protect you from your enemies can be used as easily by your enemies to harm you. -- Harry Browne The government that's strong enough to give you what you want is strong enough to destroy you. -- Harry Browne When the legislature decides the rules of buying and selling, the first thing to be bought will be the legislators. -- P. J. O'Rourke Government doesn't work. -- Harry Browne Grace Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out, and your dog would go in. -- Mark Twain People are prepared for everything except for the fact that beyond the darkness of their blindness there is a great light. They are prepared to go on breaking their backs plowing the same old field until the cows come home without seeing, until they stub their toes on it, that there is a treasure buried in that field rich enough to buy Texas They are prepared for a God who strikes hard bargains but not for a God who gives as much for an hour’s work as for a day’s. They are prepared for a mustard-seed kingdom of God no bigger than the eye of a newt but not for the great banyan it becomes with birds in its branches singing Mozart. They are prepared for the potluck supper at First Presbyterian but not for the marriage supper of the lamb&ldots; -- Frederick Buechner, Telling the Truth, Harper & Row, 1977, p. 70 The drippings of grace&ldots; longing for a sent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited. – C.S. Lewis Ah, what a thing a man devoid of grace," sighed the poet George Herbert The church also communicates ungrace through its lack of unity. Mark Twain used to say that he put a cat and a dog in a cage together as an experiment, to see if they could get along. They did, so he put in a bird, pig and goat. They, too, got along fine after a few adjustments. Then he put a Baptist, Presbyterian, and Catholic; soon there was not a living thing. – What’s So Amazing About Grace, p. 33 I know nothing, except what everyone knows – if there when Graces dances, I should dance. – W. H. Auden O momentary grace of mortal men, Which we more hunt for than the grace of God. – Shakespeare, Richard III Greatness To be great is to be misunderstood. – Ralph Waldo Emmerson, 1841 We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. – Stewart L. Udall, 1965 Power is pleasure, and pleasure sweetens pain. – William Hazlitt, 1926 No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of goodness is the page of history. – William Hazlitt, 1821 We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. – Oscar Wilde, 1892 Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short. – Sir Max Beerbohm, 1920. Growth Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to bet better than yourself. -- William Faulkner Work is a passage of self-discovery. It is not the pots we are forming, but ourselves. -- M.C. Richards, potter The ratio of what we know can blind us. It will not be the same ratio when we learn more. -- William Blake Before we can move into a new ar-rangement, we must first go through a period of de-rangement. -- M. C. Richards High aims form high characters, and great objectives bring out great minds. -- Tryon Edwards Guidance Guidance to be effective must be perpetual. -- Andrew Murray Guns One who brandishes a pistol must be prepared to shoot. -- Herbert Hoover, 1931
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