Peace Pilgrim Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Love, Inspiring, Giving

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.146, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

• One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Peace, People, Giving

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.99, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

• You must give if you want to receive. Let the center of your being be one of giving, giving, giving. You can't give too much, and you will discover you cannot give without receiving.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Giving, Over You, Receiving

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.125, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

• There is no glimpse of the light without walking the path. You can't get it from anyone else, nor can you give it to anyone. Just take whatever steps seem easiest for you, and as you take a few steps it will be easier for you to take a few more.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Light, Giving, Glimpse

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.91, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

• After you have found inner peace you have endless energy - the more you give, the more you receive. After you have found your calling, you work easily and joyously. You never get tired.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Tired, Giving, Inner Peace

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.159, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

• The motive, if you are to find inner peace, must be an outgoing motive. Service, of course-service. Giving, not getting. Your motive must be good if your work is to have good effect. The secret of life is being of service.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Peace, Helping Others, Giving

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.17, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

• A few really dedicated people can offset the masses of out of harmony people, so we who work for peace must not falter, we must continue to pray for peace and to act for peace in whatever way we can. We must continue to speak for peace and to live the way of peace; to inspire others, we must continue to think of peace and know that peace is possible. What we dwell upon we help bring to manifestation. One little person giving all of her time to peace makes news. Many people giving some of their time can make history.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Peace, Thinking, People

  "Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words". Book by Peace Pilgrim. Chapter 8: "The Way of Peace", 1982.

• How often are you worrying about the present moment? The present moment is usually all right. If you're worrying, you're either agonizing over the past which you should have forgotten long ago, or else you're apprehensive over the future which hasn't even come yet. We tend to skip over the present moment which is the only moment God gives any of us to live.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Past, Long Ago, Should Have

• Anything you strive to hold captive will hold you captive, and if you desire freedom you must give freedom.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Freedom, Giving, Desire

  Peace Pilgrim (1981). “Steps Toward Inner Peace”, p.18, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

• To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Life, Giving, Inner Peace

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.95, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

• I do my work easily and joyously. I feel beauty all around me and I see beauty in everyone I meet, for I see God in everything. I recognize my part in the Life Pattern and I find harmony through gladly and joyously living it. I recognize my oneness with all mankind and my oneness with God. My happiness overflows in loving and giving toward everyone and everything.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Oneness, Giving, Patterns

• The best way to come to terms with anything that is out of harmony is never to fear it - that gives it power. Bring good influences to bear upon it; make yourself a good example.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Giving, Example, Way

• Pure love is a willingness to give, without a thought of receiving anything in return. Love can save the world from nuclear destruction. Love God: turn to God with receptiveness and responsiveness. Love your fellow human beings: turn to them with friendliness and givingness. Make yourself fit to be called a child of God by living the way of love.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Children, Love You, Love Is

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.87, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

• I talk to groups studying the most advanced spiritual teachings and sometimes these people wonder why nothing is happening in their lives. Their motive is the attainment of inner peace for themselves - which of course is a selfish motive. You will not find it with this motive. The motive, if you are to find inner peace, must be an outgoing motive. Service, of course, service. Giving, not getting. Your motive must be good if your work is to have good effect. The secret of life is being of service.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, Selfish, Teaching

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.17, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

• If you give your life as a prayer, you intensify the prayer beyond all measure.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Prayer, Giving, Ifs

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.95, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

• If you want to serve the universe, the obvious place to begin is right where you are. That's where I began. I looked at every situation I came into and wondered, 'What can I do to be of service in this situation?' Sometimes there was nothing I could do, but often there was - a helping hand, a word of cheer, a pleasant smile. Then, after I had given a lot, a most wonderful spiritual receiving began - giving me more to give.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, Cheer, Hands

• I remember my first lesson on the pilgrimage was the lesson of receiving. I had been on the giving side for many years and I needed to learn to accept as gracefully as I had been able to give, in order to give the other fellow the joy and blessing of giving. It's so beautiful when you live to give. To me it's the only way to live because as you give you receive spiritual blessings.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Blessing

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.30, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

• How good it is to work in the invigorating fresh air under the life-giving sun amid the inspiring beauty of nature. There are many who recognize this... How good it is to earn you livelihood by contributing constructively to the society in which you live - everyone should, of course, and in a healthy society everyone would.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Air, Giving, Healthy

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.55, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

• Just as you cannot receive without giving, so neither can you give without receiving.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Giving, Receiving

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.23, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

• All right prayer has good effect, but if you give your whole life to the prayer you multiply its power... No one really knows the full power of prayer. Of course, there is a relationship between prayer and action. Receptive prayer result in an inner receiving, which motivates to right action.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Prayer, Giving, Receiving

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.75, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

• We lump together all things that are beyond the capacity of all of us collectively to understand-and one name we give to all those things together is God. Therefore, God is the creative force, the sustaining power, that which motivates toward constant change, the overall intelligence which governs the universe by physical and spiritual law, truth, love, goodness, kindness, beauty, the ever-present, all-pervading essence or spirit, which binds everything in the universe together and gives to everything in the universe.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, Kindness, Law

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.140, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

• The price of peace is to abandon greed and replace it with giving, so that none will be spiritually injured by having more than they need while others in the world still have less than they need.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Peace, Giving, Greed

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.110, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

• The path of the seeker is full of pitfalls and temptations, and the seeker must walk it alone with God. I would recommend that you keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights, so that you may attract only good. Concentrate on giving so that you may open yourself to receiving; concentrate on living according to the light you have so that you may open yourself to more light; get as much light as possible through the inner way.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Light, Feet, Giving

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.131, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

• In my life, what I want and what I need are exactly the same. Anything in excess of needs is burdensome to me. You couldn't give me anything I don't need. I am penniless, but have difficulty remaining so. Several of my well meaning, well-to-do friends have offered me large sums of money, which I of course refused.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Giving, Needs, Meaning Well

• I felt a complete willingness, without any reservations, to give my life, to dedicate my life to service. I tell you, it's a point of no return. After that, you can never go back to completely self-centered living.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Self, Giving, Return

  Peace Pilgrim (1981). “Steps Toward Inner Peace”, p.1, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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