Quotes about giving
giving may novelty
Charles Caleb Colton Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve; we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old, condensation to that which was diffuse, perspicuity to that which was obscure, and currency to that which was recondite.
giving enemy prudent
Charles Caleb Colton If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.
giving credit world
Charles Caleb Colton Instead of exhibiting talent in the hope that the world would forgive their eccentricities, they have exhibited only their eccentricities, in the hope that the world would give them credit for talent.
giving opponents talent
Charles Caleb Colton He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of mathematical truth, will come to all other questions with a decided advantage over his opponents.
giving-up deep-water sea
Charles Dickens Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead
giving missionary missions
Charles Studd True religion is like the smallpox. If you get it, you give it to others and it spreads.
giving may gift-giving
Charles Stanley You may have the gift of giving.
giving-up believe belief
Charles Spurgeon I have noticed that whenever a person gives up his belief in the Word of God because it requires that he should believe a good deal, his unbelief requires him to believe a great deal more. If there be any difficulties in the faith of Christ, they are not one-tenth as great as the absurdities in any system of unbelief which seeks to take its place.
giving heaven littles
Charles Spurgeon There is nothing little in God; His mercy is like Himself-it is infinite. You cannot measure it. His mercy is so great that it forgives great sins to great sinners, after great lengths of time, and then gives great favours and great privileges, and raises us up to great enjoyments in the great heaven of the great God.
giving christ repentance
Charles Spurgeon Repentance will not make you see Christ; but to see Christ will give you repentance.
giving way stewardship
Charles Spurgeon Even if I give the whole of my worth to Him, He will find a way to give back to me much more than I gave.
giving doctrine prominence
Charles Spurgeon To preach the gospel is to stae every doctrine contained in God's word, and to give every truth its proper prominence.
giving people church
Charles Spurgeon If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them coming back.
giving way
Charles Spurgeon God has a way of giving by the cartloads to those who give away by shovelfuls.
giving-up giving heaven
Charles Spurgeon You must either give up your sins or give up all hope of heaven.
giving people grace
Charles Spurgeon If the people do not like the doctrine of grace, give them all the more of it.
giving heaven spurgeon
Charles Spurgeon If when I get to heaven the Lord shall say to me, Spurgeon, I want you to preach for all eternity, I would reply, Lord, give me a Bible, that is all I need.
giving-up mean idols
Charles Spurgeon If you love anything better than God you are idolaters: if there is anything you would not give up for God it is your idol: if there is anything that you seek with greater fervor than you seek the glory of God, that is your idol, and conversion means a turning from every idol.
giving soul satisfaction
Charles Spurgeon My soul has learned yet more fully than ever, this day, that there is no satisfaction to be found in earthly things-God alone can give rest to my spirit.
giving forgiving
Charles Spurgeon The gospel is a gospel of giving and forgiving.
giving soul soul-mate
Alanis Morissette What I wouldn't give to find a soul mate, someone else to catch this drift.
giving lovely identity
Alanis Morissette Anytime there's separatism going on. It happens all the time, because the illusion before us is that we are separate. It gives us this sense of egoic identity, which is lovely in its own way.
giving discipline understanding
Alan Watts What is the next step, the practical application? —I will answer that the absolutely vital thing is to consolidate your understanding, to become capable of enjoyment, of living in the present, and of the discipline which this involves. Without this you have nothing to give.
giving-up ideas vision
Alan Watts For we have never actually understood the revolutionary sense beneath them – the incredible truth that what religion calls the vision of God is found in giving up any belief in the idea of God.
giving community trying
Alan Watts The psychotherapist ... tries to help the individual to be himself and to go it alone without giving unnecessary offense to his community, to be in the world (of social convention) but not of the world.
giving people sun
Alan Watts We know that from time to time there arise among human beings people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
giving unborn-child too-much
Alan Paton For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
giving-up responsibility men
Alan Paton To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
giving window staring
Alan Rickman Give me a window and I'll stare out it.
giving-up years creating
Alan Moore Certainly, my many years working in the comics industry, creating products that I do not own, has made me rather fierce on the subject of giving up rights.
giving world lasts
Alan Moore I shall die here. Every last inch of me shall perish. Except one. An inch. It's small and it's fragile and it's the only thing in the world worth having. we must never lose it, or sell it, or give it away. We must never let them take it from us.
giving-up healing risk
Alain Robert I was not willing to give up because I was born to like taking risks and that is my way of life.