giving

Don't do something for recognition. Do it out of kindness ..because out of giving, it will make you whole and complete.

Don't do something for recognition. Do it out of kindness. Do it because out of giving, it will make you whole and complete

Giving is a necessary good

What weighs us down is not gravity! A little force of kindness can decelerate depravity.

Ravens bring things to people. We're like that. It's our nature. We don't like it.

Give until it hurts.

Every sunrise is an invitation for us to arise and brighten someone's day.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Give! If you have nothing to give, don't forget to give your love.

Giving without expectation is the beauty of humanity and its foundation.

The purpose of life is to be happy by loving, giving, and forgiving.

Abundance comes from giving not from receiving.

When you give away everything without expecting anything in return, only then will everything belong to you.

What you give away with love will always remain with you.

God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using to alleviate the misery of unevangelized, uneducated, unmedicated, and unfed millions. The evidence that many professing Christians have been deceived by this doctrine is how little they give and how much they own. God has prospered them. And by an almost irresistible law of consumer culture (baptized by a doctrine of health, wealth, and prosperity) they have bought bigger (and more) houses, newer (and more) cars, fancier (and more) clothes, better (and more) meat, and all manner of trinkets and gadgets and containers and devices and equipment to make life more fun. They will object: Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper his people? Indeed! God increases our yield, so that by giving we can prove our yield is not our god. God does not prosper a man's business so that he can move from a Ford to a Cadillac. God prospers a business so that 17,000 unreached people can be reached with the gospel. He prospers the business so that 12 percent of the world's population can move a step back from the precipice of starvation.

Why are...poor people more ready to share their goods than rich people? The answer is easy: The poor have little to lose; the rich have more to lose and they are more attached to their possessions. Poverty provides a deeper motivation for understanding your neighbors, welcoming others and attending to those who are suffering. I would go so far as to say that poverty helps you understand what happiness is, what serenity is in life.

If you see your brother in need, it doesn't matter if you already gave somewhere else. You should be open to the idea of God using you to meet your brother's unexpected need.

But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got.