Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

Generosity and gratitude are inseparably linked.

When you let me take I'm grateful. When you let me give I'm blessed.

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

People really don't have to give you anything, so appreciate what people give you.

A grateful mind/ By owing owes not, but still pays, at once/ Indebted and discharg'd.

The greatest gift that you can give another person is to gracefully receive whatever it is that they want to give us.

Not all who discharge their debts of gratitude should flatter themselves that they are grateful.

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?

Gratitude is like credit; it is the backbone of our relations; frequently we pay our debts not because equity demands that we should, but to facilitate future loans.

To receive a present handsomely and in a right spirit, even when you have none to give in return, is to give one in return.

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

So long as we are receivers of mercy, we must be givers of thanks.

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.

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

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

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

Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.

He who gives love, receives love.

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

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

You have to give to be able to receive.

You need to give to get. Give support to get it. Give praise to receive it. Give your best to get your wishes. Give more love to be beloved. Give to get.

To give is one of the greatest gifts one could ever receive.

We are better pleased to see those on whom we confer benefits than those from whom we receive them.

You are where you are today because you stand on somebody's shoulders. And wherever you are heading, you cannot get there by yourself. If you stand on the shoulders of others, you have a reciprocal responsibility to live your life so that others may stand on your shoulders. It's the quid pro quo of life. We exist temporarily through what we take, but we live forever through what we give