Rosecrans Baldwin Quotes

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.

As we give presents at Christmas, we need to recognize that sharing our time and ourselves is such an important part of giving.

Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.

Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.

Be generous with your time and money - it has an amazingly fast payback. Be in the moment with everyone you love - and this frequently means tuning out work completely. And drive slow in parking lots.

When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship. And their feelings, their friendship, their generous actions seem in my eyes to be wholly miraculous: a consequence of grace alone.

I love cooking. Not for myself alone. Cooking is about giving.

We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent - criticism.

As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: 'I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love.' But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

I enjoy what I'm able to give my family.

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.

I love spending time with my friends and family. The simplest things in life give me the most pleasure: cooking a good meal, enjoying my friends.

Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.

Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.

Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us - a time when we can look back on the year that has passed and prepare for the year ahead.

My entire life changed when I became a mother - my priorities, my understanding, appreciation of life, and my relationship with God.

We're raising our girls to understand the real meaning of Christmas, and to know that it's most important to have Christmas in your heart. We go to our local mall and donate toys, and we say prayers for all the people in the world who might not be as lucky as we are.

Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, 'It's a Wonderful Life' tells a beautiful story about the priceless value of relationships.

You know, true love really matters, friends really matter, family really matters. Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters.

One of the things that evangelicals do really, really well is to make giving a joyous, social enterprise. Too often, the world sees giving as a burden, a sacrifice, when in fact it's more like an opportunity to help others and oneself at the same time.

He who gives love, receives love.