Pope Francis Quotes

I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides.

There are times we are givers, but others time we have to let others give to us.

Love those who love you, help those you help you, and give to those who give to you.

When we are unable to receive, we deny someone else the pleasure of giving.

There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.

A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.

What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.

If you give, you will be blessed.

For it is in giving that we receive.

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.

There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.

He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

Give and ye shall receive.

You have to give to be able to receive.

If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.

When you give, it comes back to you.

Gifts are an important and necessary part of our collective lives. We need to give and we need to allow others to give.