Giving is just one way of expressing that God has been good to you and will continue to do so through your being good to others.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

I always think if you are asking somebody for something it is a good idea to give them something first.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul. I try to motivate people. I try to inspire them.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

If you give, you will be blessed.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: ‚What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.‘

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

When I ask people to give, I can’t be on television if they don’t; I can’t help people, if I don’t – I mean, it takes money.

Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.

For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

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

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

Giving is true having.

Generous people can become more generous as they become richer, giving away vast fortunes to worthwhile causes as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are doing.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Encouragement to others is something everyone can give. Somebody needs what you have to give. It may not be your money; it may be your time. It may be your listening ear. It may be your arms to encourage. It may be your smile to uplift. Who knows?

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

There is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don’t.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits.

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

That’s the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy’s tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy’s going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

When you give, it comes back to you.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

God has given us two hands – one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.

I like gifts. I like to give them and I like to get them.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.