A Quote by Thomas Chalmers

It is more blessed to give than to receive, and therefore less blessed to receive than to give.

Thomas Chalmers

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Blessed Give Less More Receive Than Therefore

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Thomas Chalmers
March 17, 1780 - May 31, 1847

As it is more blessed to receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back.

Robert Frost

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.

Soren Kierkegaard

It's more blessed to give than to receive - especially kittens.

Bill Cosby

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.

Thomas of Villanova

It is more blessed to give than receive; for example, wedding presents.

H. L. Mencken

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.

Carolyn Wells

Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive.

A. B. Simpson

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.

Frederick Buechner

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.

Shailer Mathews

I believe the only way to break the power of materialism is first, to see ourselves as stewards that God has entrusted these money and possessions to, and second, to give. Jesus says, "It is more blessed to give than to receive". As long as I still have something, I believe I own it. But when I give it away, I relinquish the control, power, and prestige that come with wealth.

Randy Alcorn

To be forgiven is such sweetness that honey is tasteless in comparison with it. But yet there is one thing sweeter still, and that is to forgive. As it is more blessed to give than to receive, so to forgive rises a stage higher in experience than to be forgiven.

Charles Spurgeon

When it comes to love, everyone wants to receive it, but at the end of the day, you don't get to receive it until you start to give it. That goes for everything. What you give is what you receive. If you want the drug, you have to give the drug.

Ashton Kutcher

It's not better to give than to receive. It's insane to try to give and not receive.

Bob Burg

"It's better to give than to receive." Let me put this as elegantly as possible: "What a crock!" That statement is total hogwash, and in case you haven't noticed, it's usually propagated by people and groups who want you to give and them to receive. The whole idea is ludicrous. What's better, hot or cold, big or small, left or right, in or out? Giving and receiving are two sides of the same coin. Whoever decided that it is better to give than to receive was simply bad at math. For every giver their must be a receiver, and for every receiver there must be a giver.

T. Harv Eker

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.