A Quote by Shailer Mathews
If it is more blessed to give than to receive, then most of us are content to let the other fellow have the greater blessing.
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Avarice, greed, concupiscence and so forth are all based on the mathematical truism that the more you get, the more you have. The remark of that it is more blessed to give than to receive is based on the human truth that the more you give away in love, the more you are. It is not just for the sake of other people that tells us to give rather than get, but for our own sakes too.
It is more blessed to give than to receive, but then it is also more blessed to be able to do without than to have to have.
It is more blessed to give than to receive, and therefore less blessed to receive than to give.
As it is more blessed to receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back.
The Church will always be renewed when our attention shifts from ourselves to those who need our care. The blessing of Jesus always comes to us through the poor. The most remarkable experience of those who work with the poor is that, in the end, the poor give more than they receive. They give food to us.
I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
It's more blessed to give than to receive - especially kittens.
I remember my first lesson on the pilgrimage was the lesson of receiving. I had been on the giving side for many years and I needed to learn to accept as gracefully as I had been able to give, in order to give the other fellow the joy and blessing of giving. It's so beautiful when you live to give. To me it's the only way to live because as you give you receive spiritual blessings.
It is more blessed to give than receive; for example, wedding presents.
What great profit you gain from God when you are generous! You give a coin and receive a kingdom; you give bread from wheat and receive the Bread of Life; you give a transitory good and receive an everlasting one. You will receive it back, a hundred times more than you offered.
Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.
I teach and believe that God wants his people to be blessed. If we give and we are a blessing to other people, that God promises in his word that he will take care of us. Actually, says he'll open the windows of heaven and pour out a blessing so great that we can't contain it.
The Christmas spirit brings home to us-or should bring home to us-the profound Biblical truth that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Anything which inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that.
God created us to be channels of blessing, but our ability to receive the resources with which He wants us to bless others, depends on our being able to give then away - freely, faithfully, generously.
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