Giving Quotes - Page 630

I would never give artificial birth control to an unmarried person.

I'm only going to stand before God and give an account for my life, not for somebody else's life. If I have a bad attitude, then I need to say there's no point in me blaming you for what's wrong in my life.

I am not promising that God will give you everything you want. There are times when we want things that God knows would not be good for us.

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.

You can't have real love without operating in forgiveness. Love keeps giving the other person another chance.

Giving in to fear alters God's best plan for your life. So use the power of God's Word to do what He wants you to do...even if you have to do it afraid! The rewards are great.

God gives us hopes and dreams for certain things to happen in our lives, but He doesn't always allow us to see the exact timing of His plan.

We may feel fear but we do not have to give in to it. We can do whatever we need and want to do, even if we have to "do it afraid." Courage is not the absence of fear; it is action in the presence of fear.

There is a rule in sailing where the more maneuverable ship should give way to the less maneuverable craft. I think this is sometimes a good rule to follow in human relationships as well.

When you forgive, you gain strength and come out a winner.

The greatest gift that one human being can give another is unconditional love. It's the only thing, ultimately, that really matters.

It feels good to know you contributed positively to another's life, to their happiness, to their survival. It gives us a sense of purpose.

I am really more interested in questions than in giving answers.

I always have said, you know it's not for me to forgive or to condemn, I'm a filmmaker.

When you have love in a story, it gives you the freedom to really take the characters to very interesting places.

Seize the moment – don’t wait for anyone to give you permission.

The director is the most important because, ultimately, as an actor, when you watch a movie, it looks like an actor is giving a performance, and they kind of are. But, what's actually happening is that an actor has given a bunch of ingredients over to a director, who then constructs a performance. That's movie-making.

The poor never have enough for themselves ... but always have enough to give away.

Every time that a man who is not an absolute fool presents you with a question he considers very problematic after giving it careful thought, distrust those quick answers that come to the mind of someone who has considered it only briefly or not at all. These answers are usually simplistic views lacking in consistency, which explain nothing, or which do not bear examination.

The myths and folk tales of the whole world make clear that the refusal is essentially a refusal to give up what one takes to be one's own interest. The future is regarded not in terms of an unremitting series of deaths and births, but as though one's present system of ideals, virtues, goals, and advantages were to be fixed and made secure.

Don't assume that your personal moral compass, however admirable it may be, will always give you the right answer to complicated questions that require in-depth analysis.

Hudibras has defined nonsense, as Cowley does wit, by negatives. Nonsense, he says, is that which is neither true nor false. These two great properties of nonsense, which are always essential to it, give it such a peculiar advantage over all other writings, that it is incapable of being either answered or contradicted.

What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.

Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.

In these years we are witnessing the gigantic spectacle of innumerable human lives wandering about lost in their own labyrinths, through not having anything to which to give themselves.