Giving Quotes - Page 526

The Lord never tires of forgiving. It is we who tire of asking for forgiveness.

Dear parents, have great patience, and forgive from the depths of your heart.

Life is a precious gift, but we realize this only when we give it to others.

Let us never yield to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day.

I wish to extend an invitation to solidarity to everyone, and I would like to encourage those in public office to make every effort to give new impetus to employment, this means caring for the dignity of the person, but above all I would say do not lose hope.

Every time we give in to selfishness and say “No” to God, we spoil his loving plan for us.

Don’t be afraid to ask God for forgiveness. He never tires of forgiving us. God is pure mercy.

Seeing with the eyes of Christ, I can give to others much more than their outward necessities; I can give them the look of love which they crave.

It is no flattery to give a friend a due character; for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension.

Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in doing the face, where the character is revealed, than the rest of the body, I must be allowed to give my more particular attention to the marks of the souls of men.

Who wishes to give himself an abundance of business let him equip these two things, a ship and a woman. For no two things involve more business, if you have begun to fit them out. Nor are these two things ever sufficiently adorned, nor is any excess of adornment enough for them.

If in a discussion of many matters ... we are not able to give perfectly exact and self-consistent accounts, do not be surprised: rather we would be content if we provide accounts that are second to none in probability.

For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them

Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not

Music gives wings to the mind and flight to the imagination.

But even when I do give interviews, I always come across as such a completely different person. It seems like there's no controlling it anyway.

I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.

I must say that "Give Peace a Chance" has always seemed to me to be sensible advice.

Burton sighed, laughed loudly, and said, "Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose." Another fairy tale to give men hope . The old religions have been discredited although some refuse to face even that fact so new ones must be invented.

Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving.

I always tell the players, "We are in the business that's very much like a marathon race only we're gonna be doing it for 260-something days or so." And the race is something you get ready to do. There's gonna be some trial inside of there, but you put yourself through it because ultimately it brings a lot of meaning to your life, it gives a lot of energy to what you're doing.

Knowledge is the only kind of wealth that multiplies when you give it away.

This is our true wealth: the riches we take with us, the joy we carry inside, the support we learn to give ourselves, and the self-loving that flows as a natural by-product of that support.

Every time we give our word, it counts. For the most part, people give their word entirely too often. Our word is a precious commodity and should be treated as such.

The Bible gives no hint that a Christian "belief system" might be isolated from the life of the Church, subjected to scientific analysis, and have its truth compared with competing "belief systems".