Pope Francis Quotes

Christian hands never clasp and He doesn't give gifts for gain because a gift can never stop being a gift - it is always meant to be given.

If only one little unhappy child is made happy with the love of Jesus,...will it not be worth...giving all for that?

They lose nothing who gain Christ.

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

Every merciful act to the needy, the suffering, is as though done to Jesus.

We are born with two kidneys and only need one to survive. Maybe God gave us the other one so that we could give it away.

Give [charity] without hope or expectation of any return. To give otherwise, indeed, would scarcely be to give at all, but rather a loan.

I want to be helpful and give back to the society when I die. There are so many people in this world who are not able to see God's beautiful creations or enjoy this life. If my eyes or other organs can help even one individual, I will be happy that my life has been of use.

My take on tithing in America is that it's a middle-class way of robbing God. Tithing to the church and spending the rest on your family is not a Christian goal. It's a diversion. The real issue is: How shall we use God's trust fund-namely, all we have-for His glory? In a world with so much misery, what lifestyle should we call our people to live? What example are we setting?

People who are obsessed with God are known as givers, not takers. Obsessed people genuinely think that others matter as much as they do, and they are particularly aware of those who are poor around the world (James 2:14-26).

Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like.

Give because you love to give - as the flower pours forth its perfume.

He who gives money gives some, he who gives time gives more, and he who gives of himself gives all.

You can give of your talent, you can give of your possessions, or you can give of yourself. For God's sake, give something.

I don't know how your theology works, but if Jesus has a choice between stained glass windows and feeding starving kids in Haiti, I have a feeling he'd choose the starving kids in Haiti.

The world's favorite verb is 'get'. The verb of the Christian is 'give'

We can give without loving, but we can't love without giving. In fact, love is nothing unless we give it to someone.

Charity is indeed, a great thing, and a gift of God, and when it is rightly ordered likens us unto God himself, as far as that is possible; for it is charity which makes the man.

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