Giving Quotes
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I can't give a formula for how to spread joy, but I know that the source of the joy is one's own joy, and that that is not distinct from pleasure and fulfillment of desires. So I ask: What makes me feel alive? What is the expression of my inner wild? What would really feel good? What if what makes me feel alive leads me toward the deeper joys, which are found in generosity and service, in creating things that are beautiful to me? Maybe the world needs more of that. How many petroleum company executives are doing their work because it's beautiful to them? Not very many, I bet.
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Fasting gives you confidence to know that your spirit can master appetite . . . and helps to protect against later uncontrolled cravings and gnawing habits.
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It seems like the more I give the more I get, and that is the way it is supposed to go in life.
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When I pick up a person from the street, hungry, I give him a plate of rice, a piece of bread. But a person who is shut out, who feels unwanted, unloved, terrified, the person who has been thrown out of society - that spiritual poverty is much harder to overcome. And abortion, which often follows from contraception, brings a people to be spiritually poor, and that is the worst poverty and the most difficult to overcome.
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The greatest gift you can give another person is strength.
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Most of the problem I see amongst friends and I've experienced amongst myself is when people haven't accommodated the inequality that they want, they haven't understood that their partner wants to give more love and receive less or they haven't understood that their partner wants to receive more, but sort of give less.
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Love gives up the right to get even.
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Let me give up the need to know why things happen as they do. I will never know and constant wondering is constant suffering.
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He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.
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You want me to give her a key?" the guy asked. "I want you to give her a possibility," she told him, looking at my necklace again. "And that's what a key represents. An open door, a chance. You know?
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If you're looking for a book that will spike in sales and then go away and then spike again when it comes out in paperback, your normal model, I definitely won't give you that.
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To call someone a Christian simply because he does some Christian-y things is giving false comfort to the unsaved.
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You must give what will cost you something. This, then, is not just giving what you can live without but what you can't live without or don't want to live without, something you really like. Then your gift becomes a sacrifice, which will have value before God. Any sacrifice is useful if it is done out of love. This giving until it hurts - this sacrifice - is what I call love in action.
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Some men are heroes by nature in that they will give all that is in them without regard to the effort or to the personal returns.
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God didn’t just give a little for us; He gave His best. He gave Himself.
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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
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I found that a couple of bottles of beer would give me a lift, but the third bottle would sober me up.
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You should give up.' 'Why?' 'For one thing, you'll live longer.' 'Oh, you don't live longer. It just seems longer.
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Believing that you are the righteousness of God through Christ Jesus and simply receiving the gift of no condemnation gives you the power to go and sin no more.
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There are foods you should avoid. For me, sugar is a no. Because it gives me a spike and then a crash.
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When I live, I'll give it all I've got.
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I don't want to ever, ever give that kind of pain to one living mortal. And I will not give that thought power in my life. That's my practice.
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Writing isn't about the destination-writing is the journey that transforms the soul and gives meaning to all else.
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It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.
