Quotes about giving
giving may novelty
Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve; we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old, condensation to that which was diffuse, perspicuity to that which was obscure, and currency to that which was recondite. Charles Caleb Colton
giving enemy prudent
If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.
giving credit world
Instead of exhibiting talent in the hope that the world would forgive their eccentricities, they have exhibited only their eccentricities, in the hope that the world would give them credit for talent.
giving opponents talent
He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of mathematical truth, will come to all other questions with a decided advantage over his opponents.
giving-up deep-water sea
Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead Charles Dickens
giving missionary missions
True religion is like the smallpox. If you get it, you give it to others and it spreads. Charles Studd
giving may gift-giving
You may have the gift of giving. Charles Stanley
giving-up believe belief
I have noticed that whenever a person gives up his belief in the Word of God because it requires that he should believe a good deal, his unbelief requires him to believe a great deal more. If there be any difficulties in the faith of Christ, they are not one-tenth as great as the absurdities in any system of unbelief which seeks to take its place. Charles Spurgeon
giving heaven littles
There is nothing little in God; His mercy is like Himself-it is infinite. You cannot measure it. His mercy is so great that it forgives great sins to great sinners, after great lengths of time, and then gives great favours and great privileges, and raises us up to great enjoyments in the great heaven of the great God.
giving christ repentance
Repentance will not make you see Christ; but to see Christ will give you repentance.
giving way stewardship
Even if I give the whole of my worth to Him, He will find a way to give back to me much more than I gave.
giving doctrine prominence
To preach the gospel is to stae every doctrine contained in God's word, and to give every truth its proper prominence.
giving people church
If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them coming back.
giving way
God has a way of giving by the cartloads to those who give away by shovelfuls.
giving-up giving heaven
You must either give up your sins or give up all hope of heaven.
giving people grace
If the people do not like the doctrine of grace, give them all the more of it.
giving heaven spurgeon
If when I get to heaven the Lord shall say to me, Spurgeon, I want you to preach for all eternity, I would reply, Lord, give me a Bible, that is all I need.
giving-up mean idols
If you love anything better than God you are idolaters: if there is anything you would not give up for God it is your idol: if there is anything that you seek with greater fervor than you seek the glory of God, that is your idol, and conversion means a turning from every idol.
giving soul satisfaction
My soul has learned yet more fully than ever, this day, that there is no satisfaction to be found in earthly things-God alone can give rest to my spirit.
giving forgiving
The gospel is a gospel of giving and forgiving.
giving soul soul-mate
What I wouldn't give to find a soul mate, someone else to catch this drift. Alanis Morissette
giving lovely identity
Anytime there's separatism going on. It happens all the time, because the illusion before us is that we are separate. It gives us this sense of egoic identity, which is lovely in its own way.
giving discipline understanding
What is the next step, the practical application? —I will answer that the absolutely vital thing is to consolidate your understanding, to become capable of enjoyment, of living in the present, and of the discipline which this involves. Without this you have nothing to give. Alan Watts
giving-up ideas vision
For we have never actually understood the revolutionary sense beneath them – the incredible truth that what religion calls the vision of God is found in giving up any belief in the idea of God.
giving community trying
The psychotherapist ... tries to help the individual to be himself and to go it alone without giving unnecessary offense to his community, to be in the world (of social convention) but not of the world.
giving people sun
We know that from time to time there arise among human beings people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
giving unborn-child too-much
For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much. Alan Paton
giving-up responsibility men
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
giving window staring
Give me a window and I'll stare out it. Alan Rickman
giving-up years creating
Certainly, my many years working in the comics industry, creating products that I do not own, has made me rather fierce on the subject of giving up rights. Alan Moore
giving world lasts
I shall die here. Every last inch of me shall perish. Except one. An inch. It's small and it's fragile and it's the only thing in the world worth having. we must never lose it, or sell it, or give it away. We must never let them take it from us.
giving-up healing risk
I was not willing to give up because I was born to like taking risks and that is my way of life. Alain Robert
giving accomplishment satisfaction
For me, I find that even though I've accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn't give me a sense of satisfaction. Alan Alda