Giver Quotes - Page 5

• Christ is no Moses, no exactor, no giver of laws, but a giver of grace, a Savior; he is infinite mercy and goodness, freely and bountifully given to us.

  Martin Luther

  Law, Grace, Infinite

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• Music is a weapon of the future / music is the weapon of the progressives / music is the weapon of the givers of life

  Fela Kuti

  Weapons, Music Is

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• The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift. He told me that once he forgot himself and opened up like a door with a loose latch and everything fell out and he tried for days to put it all back in the proper order, but he finally gave up and left if there in a pile and loved everything equally. thanks to a subscriber! -William Sloan Coffin.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Love, Doors, Order

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• With every character you play you're always trying to put facets of yourself into those characters. I think Asher, at the beginning of The Giver, when he's goofy and a little bit of a rule-breaker, a little bit of a jokester, I align with him. But then he kind of transforms throughout the movie and becomes someone I don't necessarily relate to. I relate to Adam McCormick's sensitivity. He's more quiet and introverted, and I definitely have those moments as well.

  Cameron Monaghan

  Character, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The giver gives, but really he is sowing the seed for later, the gift of a rich harvest.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Giving, Sowing, Rich

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Dec 11, 2015

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• But what parent can tell when some . . . fragmentary gift of knowledge or wisdom will enrich her children's lives? Or how a small seed of information passed from one generation to another may generate a new science, a new industry-a seed which neither the giver nor the receiver can truly evaluate at the time.

  Helena Rubinstein

  Children, Giving, Parent

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• For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself?

  John Calvin

  Worship, Idolatry, Ifs

  John Calvin “Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion”, Westminster John Knox Press

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• The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Being True

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.537, Library of America

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• The belly is the giver of genius.

  Aulus Persius Flaccus

  Food, Genius, Belly

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• It is easy to want things from the Lord and yet not want the Lord Himself, as though the gift could ever be preferable to the Giver.

  Saint Augustine

  Want, Easy, Lord

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• But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle in its brilliance; it always gives itself. Only as an image of the highest virtue did gold get to be the highest value. The giver's glance gleams like gold. A golden brilliance concludes peace between the moon and the sun. Uncommon is the highest virtue and useless, it is gleaming and gentle in its brilliance: a gift-giving virtue is the highest virtue.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Money, Moon, Giving

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• Most creatures have a vague belief that a very precarious hazard, a kind of transparent membrane, divides death from love; and that the profound idea of nature demands that the giver of life should die at the moment of giving.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Sex, Ideas, Giving

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “The Life of the Bee: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.97, 谷月社

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• The most successful givers aren’t doing it because they’re being told to. They do it because doing it is fun. It gives them joy.

  Seth Godin

  Fun, Successful, Giving

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? How to drive your career and create a remarkable future”, p.140, Hachette UK

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• The way I understand gifts is that the giver must make a sacrifice, create an uneven exchange, bring himself closer to the recipient, create change and do it all with the right spirit.

  Seth Godin

  Sacrifice, Way, Spirit

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• When you say there's too much evil in this world you assume there's good. When you assume there's good, you assume there's such a thing as a moral law on the basis of which to differentiate between good and evil. But if you assume a moral law, you must posit a moral Law Giver, but that's Who you're trying to disprove and not prove. Because if there's no moral Law Giver, there's no moral law. If there's no moral law, there's no good. If there's no good, there's no evil. What is your question?

  Ravi Zacharias

  Law, Evil, Trying

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Aug 20, 2014

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• In their role as celestial servants to humans on earth, Angels act variously as guardians, guides, teachers, truth-givers and comforters, protectors of the righteous, punishers of the wicked, and more.

  David Connolly

  Teacher, Angel, Wicked

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• The Lord loveth a cheerful giver. He also accepteth from a grouch.

  Catherine Hall

  Making A Difference, Cheerful, Charity

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• My concept of an advice giver had been a therapist or a know-it-all, and then I realized nobody listens to the know-it-alls. You turn to the people you know, the friend who has been in the thick of it or messed up - and I'm that person for sure.

  Cheryl Strayed

  People, Advice, Know It All

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• I tend not to think about audience when I'm writing. Many people who read "The Giver" now have their own kids who are reading it. Even from the beginning, the book attracted an audience beyond a child audience.

  Lois Lowry

  Children, Book, Reading

  "Lois Lowry, ‘Son’ And ‘The Giver’ Author, Reflects On Dystopian Novels, Psychopaths And Why Kids Make The Best Audiences". Interview with Lucas Kavner, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2012.

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• A gift is acceptable according to what the giver has, not according to what he has not.

  John Stott

  Generosity, Acceptable

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• Givers for God disarm the power of money.

  R. Kent Hughes

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• Is it not easy to conceive the World in your Mind? To think the Heavens fair? The Sun Glorious? The Earth fruitful? The Air Pleasant? The Sea Profitable? And the Giver bountiful? Yet these are the things which it is difficult to retain. For could we always be sensible of their use and value, we should be always delighted with their wealth and glory.

  Thomas Traherne

  Thinking, Air, Sea

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.

  Seneca the Younger

  Mind, Benefits

  "De Beneficiis". Book by Seneca the Younger, I. 1,

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• If all the world Should in a pet of temp'rance, feed on pulse, Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze, Th' All-giver would be unthank'd, would be unprais'd.

  John Milton

  Pet, Pulse, Would Be

  John Milton (1760). “Paradise Regain'd ... To which is added Samson Agonistes and Poems upon Several Occasions, with a Tractate of Education. [With engraved plates.]”, p.206

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• When the Giver of Grace is here, you run after persons who claim that they got this or the other article from Me or were blessed with this gift from Me.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Running, Blessed, Grace

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