Giver Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• 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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• You shout and the valleys shout, or you sing and the valleys sing. Each heart is a valley. If you pour love into it, it will respond. The first lesson of love is not to ask for love, but just to give. Become a giver. And people are doing just the opposite. Even when they give, they give only with the idea that love should come back. It is a bargain. They don't share, they don't share freely. They share with a condition. They go on watching out of the corner of their eye whether it is coming back or not. Very poor people... they don't know the natural functioning of love.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Eye, Heart

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• I belong to the givers. I want to give a little happiness even if I haven’t had much for myself. Music has enriched my life and, hopefully - through me, a little - the public’s. If anyone left an opera house feeling more happy and at peace, I achieved my purpose.

  Maria Callas

  Giving, House, Feelings

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• Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Giving, Being Thankful, Receiving

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.205, Penguin

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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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• We are not the healers, we are not the reconcilers, we are not the givers of life. We are sinful, broken, vulnerable people who need as much care as anyone we care for.

  Henri Nouwen

  People, Broken, Needs

  "In the Name of Jesus". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1989.

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• Charity is from person to person; and it loses half, far more than half, its moral value when the giver is not brought into personal relation with those to whom he gives.

  James Anthony Froude

  Giving, Half, Charity

  James Anthony Froude (1903). “The nemesis of faith: or, The history of Markham Sutherland”

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• To sow, that others may reap; to work and plant for those that are to occupy the earth when we are dead; to project our influences far into the future, and live beyond our time; to rule as the Kings of Thought, over men who are yet unborn; to bless with the glorious gifts of Truth and Light and Liberty those who will neither know the name of the giver, nor care in what grave his unregarded ashes repose, is the true office of a Mason and the proudest destiny of a man.

  Albert Pike

  Kings, Destiny, Men

  Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.278, Simon and Schuster

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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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• We are the mediocre, we are the half givers, we are the half lovers, we are the savourless salt. Break the hard crust of complacency. Quicken in us the sharp grace of desire.

  Caryll Houselander

  Grace, Desire, Complacency

  Caryll Houselander (1945). “The Flowering Tree”

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• Think of lab rats racing through a maze, when you watch the sub-intelligent, dual-panel 'dialogue' conducted on the teli. Each rat runs with a designated, neatly bifurcated (Republican or Democratic) political orthodoxy. Each is a 'maze-bright' rat, and not the possessor and giver of any truth.

  Ilana Mercer

  Running, Intelligent, Thinking

  "Left and Right Bamboozling You on Benghazi". www.wnd.com. January 09, 2014.

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• We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. We can receive anything from love, forthat is a way of receiving it from ourselves; but not from any one who assumes to bestow. We sometimes hate the meat which we eat, because there seems something of degrading dependence in living it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hate, Hands, Forgiving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.536, Library of America

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• Praise is a more ingenious, concealed, and subtle kind of flattery, that satisfies both the giver and the receiver, though by verydifferent ways. The one accepts it as a reward due to his merit; the other gives it that he may be looked upon as a just and discerning person.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Giving, May, Rewards

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• What comfort there is in a cheerful spirit! how the heart leaps up to meet a sunshiny face, a merry tongue, an even temper, and a heart which either naturally, or, what is better, from conscientious principle, has learned to take all things on their bright side, believing that the Giver of life being all-perfect Love, the best offering we can make to Him is to enjoy to the full what He sends of good, and bear what He allows of evil!

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Believe, Heart, Offering

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 10), 1858.

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• Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Self, Giving

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Selected Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins”, p.48, Courier Corporation

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• Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Law, Intellect, Receiver

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.229, Penguin

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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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• The belly is the giver of genius.

  Aulus Persius Flaccus

  Food, Genius, Belly

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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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