Giving Quotes - Page 850

I have need of a friend. There is one and only one who will give the air from his failing lungs for my body's mend. And that one is my love.

Therefore we pledge to bind ourselves to one another, to embrace our lowliest, to keep company with our loneliest, to educate our illiterate, to feed our starving, to clothe our ragged, to do all good things, knowing that we are more than keepers of our brothers and sisters. We are our brothers and sisters

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.

Being very rich as far as I am concerned is having a margin. The margin is being able to give.

The gift turned inward, unable to be given, becomes a heavy burden, even sometimes a kind of poison. It is as though the flow of life were backed up.

I love giving flowers. It is so deliciously unlasting and romantic.

I do my housework in the nude. It gives me an incentive to clean the mirrors as quickly as possible.

The idea of working with Steven Spielberg was very attractive. He's such a master. He knows the language of the camera and of filmmaking, which gives him a great freedom.

I don't have any desire to retire in the sense of not doing anything. As long as the Lord gives me strength I want to keep writing and keep preaching.

I really believe the purpose of Scripture is to give us this authoritative handbook.

Listen carefully to the feedback your readers give you. Dont write unless people want you to write, a lot of people write just because they want to write.

I think there is a time, if I can say this; there is a time in a message where you might just tell a story to give your audience a break.

The strength of a story is that it stays with people and it gives an opportunity for that story to connect with people where the Holy Spirit intends for it to do so.

Who are they to give stars or dots? They're Wemmicks just like you." Eli to Punchinello (p. 25)

I've never really prided myself as being quick on my feet. Maybe you've had the experience where somebody's asked you a question and you give an answer, then later in the day you think, "Oh, I wish I'd said that!" I tend to journal these things and put the answers in sermons.

Aren't you glad that God doesn't give you only that which you remember to thank him for?

When you give a gift to one of God's children, you give a gift to God.

God offers authentic LOVE. His devotion is the real deal. But He won't give you the genuine until you surrender the imitations.

It is not the armed forces which can protect our democracy. It is the moral strength of democracy which alone can give any meaning to the efforts at military security.

Bullingdon would never go co-ed. I'm not going to give anything away, but there are a couple of girls involved in our story and it doesn't end well for anyone.

If you're losing a tug of war with a tiger, give it the rope. You can always buy a new one.

I love Jonathan Adler but more importantly I love throws. To clarify, a throw is not to be confused with a blanket. A blanket is to be slept under, a throw is to accent a chair or sofa and give the illusion that in some scenario someone might rest underneath it. In reality, this scenario does not exist and I never want it to.

God expects believers to improve their attitude in giving as well as their giving itself.

Giving works best when the Lord's portion is removed first and believers learn to live within the remainder.

Giving to God should come from the firstfruits of a person's labor rather than from what is left after the bills are paid.