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“There was always an unspoken generosity about my mom.”
“God commands both individuals and the society in which they live to be generous and always take care of the poor. In such a community, shalom has a chance to thrive. In such a community, God will a...”
“The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.”
“We collected all the bones we could find, and yesterday, Natividad wrapped them in a shawl that she had knitted years ago. It was the most beautiful thing she owned."A thing like that should serve ...”
“We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generositie.”
“You give but little when you give of your possessions.It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”
“Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!”
“I've been so bothered with my property, that I'm tired of it, and don't mean to save up any more, but give it away as I go along, and then nobody will envy me, or want to steal it, and I shan't be ...”
“Bodily passion, which has been so unjustly decried, compels its victims to display every vestige that is in them of unselfishness and generosity, and so effectively that they shine resplendent in t...”
“Jesus seemed to believe that the key to generosity wasn’t having more, but being content with what you already have.”
“Here’s the thing: You can be materialistic and poor. You can also be content and rich. It has nothing to do with your income and it has everything to do with your heart. You don’t need to earn more...”
“(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.”
“Oh! if the good hearts had the fat purses, how much better everything would go!”
“Humility, gratitude, and generosity – three things you can never go wrong with.”
“What has defined our faith since the beginning is open-ended gladness.”
“Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.”
“Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.”
“Generosity is also marked by doing what one says one will do. Saadi teaches: ‘when the generous promise, they perform”
“Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why is has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.”
“Generosity is not in giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is in giving me that which you need more than I do.”
