Genuine Giving Quotes

If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.

You must give what will cost you something. This, then, is not just giving what you can live without but what you can't live without or don't want to live without, something you really like. Then your gift becomes a sacrifice, which will have value before God. Any sacrifice is useful if it is done out of love. This giving until it hurts - this sacrifice - is what I call love in action.

Giving with the intention of receiving really isn't giving, it's trading.

I didn't think it was fair to pretend to give of myself when I was so selfishly consumed with my own drives.

The best gifts come from the heart, not the store.

Take care that all your offerings be free, and of your own, that has cost you something; so that ye may not offer of that which is another man's, or that which ye are entrusted withal, and not your own.

you have to be very careful when you give to others that you don't tell them how great you are rather than how much you value them.

And if I tried to give you something else, something outside myself, you would not know that the worst of anyone can be, finally, an accident of hope

When it comes to helping out, I don't believe in doing it for the media attention. My goal is to support the organizations that need help.

When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.

But hospitality must be for service, and not for show, or it pulls down the host. The brave soul rates itself too high to value itself by the splendor of its table and draperies. It gives what it hath, and all it hath, but its own majesty can lend a better grace to bannocks and fair water than belong to city feasts.

For most of us, generosity is a quality that must be developed. We have to respect that it will grow gradually; otherwise our spirituality can become idealistic and imitative, acting out the image of generosity before it has become genuine.

You give, actually, what you have in your inner world through your emotion and feeling. That's what you can give; it's not so much about "acting" in a sense of playing something that's very different to you.

Giving that is not motivated by love is worth nothing.

To support the people we care about is intrinsic, it is not instrumental. It's not something we do because we're hoping to get some other outcome.

Generous gestures yield the most when that isn't their purpose.

Sometimes you need to give people something that's for them, not just something that makes you feel good giving it.

If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do it, wallow in it!

You cannot speak that which you do not know. You cannot share that which you do not feel. You cannot translate that which you do not have. And you cannot give that which you do not possess. To give it and to share it, and for it to be effective, you first need to have it. Good communication starts with good preparation.

I don't want to be a celebrity who's trying to like say, «look at this charity work I'm doing».