Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

In charity there is no excess.

I know that if I feel any deprivation or fear [about money], the solution is to give. The solution is to go find some mothers on the streets of San Raphael and give them tens and twenties and mail off another $50 to Doctors Without Borders to use for the refugees in Kosovo. Because I know that giving is the way we can feel abundant. Giving is the way that we fill ourselves up.... For me the way to fill up is through service and sharing and getting myself to give more than I feel comfortable giving.

The biggest thing for me with charity is awareness. Obviously as an athlete, I have an opportunity to make people more aware. The average person doesn't have that opportunity, so the best way is to spare some money, clothing, food - something. Most of us have a little excess of something that we can give.

So, I gave my belts out to others to give them a chance.

The more you give to others, the more you get in return.

My mother once said, "A beggar must always give to another beggar that's worse off than he is." That has always stuck with me.

However little of anything you have, you can always find someone who has less. Find that someone, and give to them from the abundance that is yours.

Giving is the highest level of living.

In the world take always the position of the giver.

Charity is without fear: having given all that it has, it has nothing left to lose.

There is great joy in doing something for somebody else with no thought in receiving anything in return.

They should give until it hurts, maybe a very small thing, maybe just a packet of cigarettes, but instead of by smoking that one packet, maybe I share that packet with somebody who has not got even one cigarette, and that's the beginning of love, to give until it hurts.

It is at times such as this that we show our true spirit of giving and of brotherhood - of revealing the good Samaritan in all of us.

Charity is a naked child, giving honey to a bee without wings.

Generosity is something we learn, from our parents, schools and community.

When you discover the wonder of giving, you will wonder how you could have lived so long in any other way.

The charitable say in effect, 'I seem to have more than I need and you seem to have less than you need. I would like to share my excess with you.' Fine, if my excess is tangible, money or goods, and fine if not, for I learned that to be charitable with gestures and words can bring enormous joy and repair injured feelings.

Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in light of Scripture and human need.

The more good I do, the more money has come in. You have to learn to give. You're not born to give. You're born selfish.

Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, himself, his hungering neighbor and me.

The more we give to others, the more we are increased.

Charity opens the heart.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

Everything I do now is about growing the pot to have more to give away.