Pope Benedict XVI Quotes

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

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

Giving is a really big thing around Christmas, as well it should be. Christmas is about giving, and it all stems from the greatest gift the world has ever received - the gift of Jesus Christ.

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.

Choose to be kind. Choose to forgive. Let your love grow and shine so that people may look at the example of your life and glorify God in Heaven.

God wants you to live for others and to live that presence well.

It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.

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

You have to give to be able to receive.

It is difficult to help a man without hurting his pride. Everyone wants to be a giver and not a receiver.

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

Let him who has given a favor be silent; let he who has received it tell it.

There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving.

How many young people among you are like this? You know how to give and yet you have ever learned how to receive. You still lack one thing. Become a beggar. This is what you still lack. Learn how to beg. This isn’t easy to understand. To learn how to beg. To learn how to receive with humility.

We receive from God, then we give to others.

God has given us two hands - one to receive with and the other to give with. We are cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing. If we fail to fulfill this divine duty and privilege we have missed the meaning of Christianity.

We have so much love to give, and the more that we give, the more we receive.

There is no greater enjoyment than that of sharing something. Have you given something to somebody? That's why people enjoy giving gifts so much. It is a sheer delight. When you give something to somebody - maybe valueless, may not be of much value - but just the way, just the gesture that you give, satisfies tremendously. Just think of a person whose whole life is a gift! whose every moment is a sharing - he lives in heaven. There is no other heaven than that.

Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.

Today God gives milk / and I have the pail.

Every gift is held by two hands: the one that gives, and the one that takes away.

It's not about me - it's like, "How can I help you?" And when you give like that, you receive so much. It was an incredible experience, but it also gave me that bug: I wanted new music so badly.

Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.

Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.