Giving Quotes - Page 549

We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our children. The connection is imperfect. We will sometimes do wrong.

I want more from life than that and I have more to give.

Do not look for joy anywhere else. It is living in you, and gives meaning to all Existence.

I can always forgive where I understand.

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

Just deciding to forgive isn't enough because willpower alone won't work - we need divine strength from God. As He gives us the strength, we need to pray for our enemies and bless them. Praying for those who have hurt us is vital to successfully forgiving them.

Mercy is the stuff you give to people that don't deserve it.

I want to focus on God's grace and give thanks for all the good things in my life. I don't want to focus on what I don't have.

Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.

I was giving a speech one time, and the woman who introduced me said, 'Well, she used to be J. D. Salinger's girlfriend. I thought, 'God, is that all I've been?' I didn't want to be reduced to that.

If we give up the notion that everybody’s life is perfect but ours, we would be a lot happier. Nobody’s life is perfect.

Don’t give people what they want, give them what they need.

You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.

Representational painters: place your works in a larger context. Give your work not only breadth but breath. Do not 'copy' what you see outwardly but give it 'spirit.

I truly believe that generosity begets generosity. You give before you receive.

Now remember: When things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb mad-dog mean. 'Cause if you lose your head and give up then you neither live nor win. That's just the way it is.

So popular is the naval service the only embarrassment is that men volunteer so rapidly we have to work overtime to give them hardy, adequate housing and proper training.

Nothing annoys a 'progressive' like refugees from Communism, who give the lie to the Great Socialist Dream.

God judges men according to the use they make of the light which He gives them.

The sincere teachers of their youth should be met, not with an intention to dictate to them, but to give additional force to their well-meant endeavours, and raise them to public esteem.

Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.

A few words worthy to be remembered suffice to give an idea of a great mind. There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work, a simplicity so finished and so perfect that it equals in merit and in excellence a large and glorious composition.

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

I wouldn't want to live without strong misgivings.

Now you say, alas! Christianity is hard; I grant it; but gainful and happy. I contemn the difficulty when I respect the advantage. The greatest labors that have answerable requitals are less than the least that have no regard. Believe me, when I look to the reward, I would not have the work easier. It is a good Master whom we serve, who not only pays, but gives; not after the proportion of our earnings, but of His own mercy.