Gifts are improved in us by prayer and study, but the benefits of those gifts are shared among us by love and unity.
– John Flavel –
1627-1691
Giving
Can’t Love Without Giving – Amy Carmichael
You can always give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
– Amy Carmichael –
Happy are those Christians – JC Ryle
Happy are those Christians who have learned of Jesus to live for others more than for themselves, and who understand that is is “more blessed to give than to receive.” (Acts 20:35)
– JC Ryle –
from Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Luke, 1858
The more I gave away … – Hudson Taylor
My experience was that the less I spent on myself and the more I gave away, the fuller of happiness and blessing did my soul become. Unspeakable joy all the day long, and every day was my happy experience.
– Hudson Taylor –
Christmas is an exchange of gifts – Vance Havner
Christmas is based on an exchange of gifts, the gift of God to man—His unspeakable gift of His Son, and the gift of man to God—when we present our bodies a living sacrifice.
– Vance Havner –
We receive more than we give – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
In ordinary life, we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer –
Real Christianity – Catherine Booth
Show the world a real, living, self-sacrificing, hard-working, toiling, triumphing Christianity, and the world will be influenced by it; but anything short of that they will turn round and spit upon.
– Catherine Booth –
A Desire to Give – CS Lewis
In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.
– CS Lewis –
Gifts of the Spirit – Jack W. Hayford
Jesus gives us the gift of the Holy Spirit, yet when the Spirit comes, He is loaded with packages! He desires to release much more in us and through us than we could ever imagine. These gifts are given for delivery, not for accumulation. We receive them to pass them on to others.
– Jack W. Hayford –