I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. Votes: 4
Maya AngelouHe who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver. Votes: 4
Thomas a KempisIf I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god. Votes: 4
Napoleon BonaparteThis is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver. Votes: 4
Friedrich NietzscheFor what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself? Votes: 3
John CalvinBut, oh, Thou bounteous Giver of all good, Thou art, of all Thy gifts, Thyself thy crown! Votes: 3
William CowperWarning: we may become so enamored with God's good gifts that we fail to worship the Giver. Votes: 3
A. B. SimpsonGod is the Creator and the Giver of life, and the life that He gives does not run dry. Votes: 3
Brenton BrownGod, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land. Votes: 3
Rabindranath TagoreThou O Lord, art my Father and Thou my Mother. Thou art the Giver of peace to my soul and very life. Votes: 3
Guru ArjanWe like the gift when we the giver prize. Votes: 2
John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and NormanbyThe Sun is the sole inconsumable fireAnd God is the sole inexhaustible Giver. Votes: 2
Ralph Waldo EmersonNot what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare. Votes: 2
James Russell LowellI think when you're very dedicated to something and you're engaged fully, you become a giver. Votes: 2
Russell SimmonsA gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. Votes: 2
Lucius Annaeus SenecaA benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. Votes: 2
Seneca the YoungerRespect flows two ways and can mean as much to the giver as to the one receiving. Votes: 1
David Anthony DurhamThe person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver. Votes: 1
Mother TeresaGrace is unconditional acceptance given to an undeserving person by an unobligated giver. Votes: 0
Tullian TchividjianThe critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible. Votes: 0
Storm JamesonIf you become a giver, you'll make them feel like they want to reciprocate. Votes: 0
Price PritchettTrue charity occurs only when there are no notions of giving, giver, or gift. Votes: 0
Gautama BuddhaNature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonGive beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver. Votes: 0
Gerard Manley HopkinsDon't let money change your direction; that's the job of the giver of the money. Votes: 0
Israelmore AyivorThe manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself. Votes: 0
Johann Kaspar LavaterFor a noble heart, the most precious gift becomes poor, when the giver stops loving. Votes: 0
William Shakespearethe giver measures his gift with one yardstick, and the receiver measures it with another. Votes: 0
Laura HuxleyGod's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver.. Votes: 0
Timothy KellerThe generous giver, demonstrating the nature of God by his behavior, can never outgive God. Votes: 0
Max AndersAh, we have to be generous to be grateful ... One has oneself to be a giver. Votes: 0
Ivy Compton-BurnettPrometheus, thief of light, giver of light, bound by the gods, must have been a book. Votes: 0
Mark Z. DanielewskiBeing a giver is not good for a 100-yard dash, but itâs valuable in a marathon. Votes: 0
Adam GrantA gift is acceptable according to what the giver has, not according to what he has not. Votes: 0
John StottFor every giver there must be a receiver, and for every receiver there must be a giver. Votes: 0
T. Harv EkerGod promised you to give you dreams and visions, see Him as your great dream/vision giver. Votes: 0
Euginia HerlihyNow even the heavens are thankful that because of love I have become the giver of light. Votes: 0
RumiGenuine love will always feel urged to communicate joy - to be a joy-giver. Mankind needs joy.... Votes: 0
Lawrence G. Lovasik...surely I could give him--a sort of contentment... That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver. Votes: 0
Dodie SmithPrayer is an art which only the Spirit can teach us. He is the giver of all prayer. Votes: 0
Charles SpurgeonThe giver gives, but really he is sowing the seed for later, the gift of a rich harvest. Votes: 0
Sathya Sai BabaLoving service anonymously given may be unknown to man-but the gift and the giver are known to God. Votes: 0
Thomas S. MonsonWe do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonIf you are a good giver, you will be great getter. The less you need, the more you attract. Votes: 0
Russell SimmonsIn marriage, someone has to be a giver and someone a taker. I am a taker who married a giver. Votes: 0
Robert PrestonWhen someone is counting out gold for you, don't look at your hands, or the gold. Look at the giver. Votes: 0
RumiBy my 40s, I finally got out of my own way, so I could become a life creator; a life giver. Votes: 0
Art GarfunkelI never liked apples. In fact, when I was a little girl, my mom wanted to give me apples in my lunch box and I would ask for green peppers. So bizarre... It's funny - I don't have an apple a day, but I can say that I have a few a week. Votes: 1 Lana Parrilla
A most loving virtue of all, is that of a cheerful giver with the right attitude of LOVE! Giving is not just a random act of kindness. It is an investment in humanity. In return you become more than yourself, you transcend. Votes: 5 Angie Karan
What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life. Votes: 2 Adrian Grenier
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader. Votes: 1 Joseph Joubert
Eve is a life giver; she is Adam's ally. It is to both of them that the charter for adventure is given. It will take both of them to sustain life. And they will both need to fight together. Votes: 3 John Eldredge
To be here recovers from a state of soul, from a state of mind. I have the memory of the heart. I know what I received. I must have the will to give back to others. Votes: 1 Jacky Ickx