Henry Taylor Quotes

That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

This is the spirit of the Order, indeed the true spirit of Mercy flowing on us.

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

Those who give of themselves rarely regret it.

Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.

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.

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

The joy of giving is indeed a pleasure, especially when you get rid of something you don't want.

The best way to do ourselves good is to be doing good to others; the best way to gather is to scatter.

He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.

To me, charity often is just about giving, because you're supposed to, or because it's what you've always done - or it's about giving until it hurts.

To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.

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.

Sacrifice to me is something you do without expecting something in return.

Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield.

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

Everything I ever had, I have shared.

Trees bear fruits only to be eaten by others; the fields grown grains, but they are consumed by the world. Cows give milk, but she doesn't drink it herself - that is left to others. Clouds send rain only to quench the parched earth. In such giving, there is little space for selfishness.

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

If something's really selfless, then there's really no value in it for you... there's only value in it for the world.

Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness.

I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.

He that lends, gives.

He that gives all, though but little, gives much; because God looks not to the quantity of the gift, but to the quality of the givers.