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Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Conquering Self-centeredness (1957)
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Conquering Self-centeredness (1957)
Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
Fulton J. Sheen1895–1979
- God
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
?UnattributedOften credited to Winston Churchill
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
Mother Teresa1910–1997
I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
Mother Teresa1910–1997
The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
HBHada Bejar
The measure of your life will not be in what you accumulate, but in what you give away.
Wayne Dyer1940–2015
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
Augustine of Hippo354–430
It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
Mother Teresa1910–1997
The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
Mother Teresa1910–1997
I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment.
Mother Teresa1910–1997
- Christianity
Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.
Colin Powell1937–2021